An Approach to Summarizing Short Stories

This paper describes a system that produces extractive summaries of short works of literary fiction. The ultimate purpose of produced summaries is defined as helping a reader to determine whether she would be interested in reading a particular story. To this end, the summary aims to provide a reader with an idea about the settings of a story (such as characters, time and place) without revealing the plot. The approach presented here relies heavily on the notion of aspect. Preliminary results show an improvement over two na

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: EACL
• Authors: Anna Kazantseva
• Keywords: EACL 2006, Extractive Summaries, Literary Fiction, Natural Language Processing, Ultimate Purpose