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MultiGBS: A multi-layer graph approach to biomedical summarization
Automatic text summarization methods generate a shorter version of the input
text to assist the reader in gaining a quick yet informative gist. Existing
text summarization methods generally focus on a single aspect of text when
selecting sentences, causing the potential loss of essential information. In
this study, we propose a domain-specific method that models a document as a
multi-layer graph to enable multiple features of the text to be processed at
the same time. The features we used in this paper are word similarity, semantic
similarity, and co-reference similarity, which are modelled as three different
layers. The unsupervised method selects sentences from the multi-layer graph
based on the MultiRank algorithm and the number of concepts. The proposed
MultiGBS algorithm employs UMLS and extracts the concepts and relationships
using different tools such as SemRep, MetaMap, and OGER. Extensive evaluation
by ROUGE and BERTScore shows increased F-measure values