Using cohesive properties of text for Automatic Summarization

Fuentes, Maria     mfuentes@ima.udg.es     (Universitat de Girona)   Rodríguez, Horacio     horacio@lsi.upc.es     (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)

Jornadas de Tratamiento y Recuperación de la Información / Departamento de Biblioteconomía y Documentación y Departamento de Informática de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
(ReLIS:doi:jotris:y:2003:p42-50)

Abstract:

A system allowing extractive automatic summarization of textual documents is presented. The system is based on the cohesive properties of text, namely lexical chains, co-reference chains and named entity chains. In this way the system extend the well known lexical-chaining paradigm for summarization. The system has been applied to summarization tasks on Spanish agency news. Results of its evaluation and comparison with a couple os baseline systems are presented.

Creation: 2003

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