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Identifying Sentence-Level Semantic Content Units with Topic Models

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Identifying Sentence-Level Semantic Content Units with Topic Models
Abstract--Statistical approaches to document content modeling typically focus either on broad topics or on discourselevel subtopics of a text. We present an analysis of the performance of probabilistic topic models on the task of learning sentence-level topics that are similar to facts. The identification of sentential content with the same meaning is an important task in multi-document summarization and the evaluation of multi-document summaries. In our approach, each sentence is represented as a distribution over topics, and each topic is a distribution over words. We compare the topicsentence assignments discovered by a topic model to goldstandard assignments that were manually annotated on a set of closely related pairs of news articles. We observe a clear correspondence between automatically identified and annotated topics. The high accuracy of automatically discovered topicsentence assignments suggests that topic models can be utilized to identify (sub-)sentential semantic conten...
Leonhard Hennig, Thomas Strecker, Sascha Narr, Ern
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Type Conference
Year 2010
Where DEXAW
Authors Leonhard Hennig, Thomas Strecker, Sascha Narr, Ernesto William De Luca, Sahin Albayrak
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