Wrapping up a Summary: From Representation to Generation

The main focus of this work is to investigate robust ways for generating summaries from summary representations without recurring to simple sentence extraction and aiming at more human-like summaries. This is motivated by empirical evidence from TAC 2009 data showing that human summaries contain on average more and shorter sentences than the system summaries. We report encouraging preliminary results comparable to those attained by participating systems at TAC 2009.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Josef Steinberger, Marco Turchi, Mijail Alexandrov Kabadjov, Ralf Steinberger, Nello Cristianini
• Keywords: ACL 2010, Computational Linguistics, Simple Sentence Extraction, Summaries, TAC 2009 Data