This paper presents the integration of cohesive properties of text with coherence relations, to obtain an adequate representation of text for automatic summarization. A summarizer...
We present a series of experiments to demonstrate the validity of Relative Utility (RU) as a measure for evaluating extractive summarizers. RU is applicable in both singledocument...
A key problem in text summarization is finding a salience function which determines what information in the source should be included in the summary. This paper describes the use ...
The exploitation of the discourse structure of a text and the identification of the discourse categories are essential elements for the automatic summarization, as well as for the...
Antoine Blais, Iana Atanassova, Jean-Pierre Descl&...
Leading text extracts created to support some online Boolean retrieval goals are evaluated for their acceptability as news document summaries. Results are presented and discussed ...