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Generating Text Summaries through the Relative Importance of Topics

Neto, Joel Larocca and Santos, Alexandre D. and Kaestner, Celso A.A. and Freitas, Alex A. (2000) Generating Text Summaries through the Relative Importance of Topics. In: Advances in Artificial Intelligence International Joint Conference 7th Ibero-American Conference on AI 15th Brazilian Symposium on AI IBERAMIA-SBIA. Lecture Notes in Computer Science . Springer, Berlin, Germany, pp. 301-309. ISBN 978-3-540-41276-2. E-ISBN 978-3-540-44399-5. (doi:10.1007/3-540-44399-1_31) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:21934)

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Abstract

This work proposes a new extractive text-summarization algorithm based on the importance of the topics contained in a document. The basic ideas of the proposed algorithm are as follows. At first the document is partitioned by using the TextTiling algorithm, which identifies topics (coherent segments of text) based on the TF-IDF metric. Then for each topic the algorithm computes a measure of its relative relevance in the document. This measure is computed by using the notion of TF-ISF (Term Frequency - Inverse Sentence Frequency), which is our adaptation of the well-known TF-IDF (Term Frequency - Inverse Document Frequency) measure in information retrieval. Finally, the summary is generated by selecting from each topic a number of sentences proportional to the importance of that topic.

Item Type: Book section
DOI/Identification number: 10.1007/3-540-44399-1_31
Uncontrolled keywords: Information Retrieval, Term Frequency, Source Text, Inverse Document Frequency, Stopword Removal
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming,
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User: Mark Wheadon
Date Deposited: 13 Sep 2009 20:01 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:00 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/21934 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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