Regression model focused on query for multi documents summarization based on significance of the sentence position

Document summarization is needed to get the information effectively and efficiently. One method used to obtain the document summarization by applying machine learning techniques. This paper proposes the application of regression models to query-focused multi-document summarization based on the significance of the sentence position. The method used is the Support Vector Regression (SVR) which estimates the weight of the sentence on a set of documents to be made as a summary based on sentence feature which has been defined previously. A series of evaluations performed on a data set of DUC 2005. From the test results obtained summary which has an average precision and recall values of 0.0580 and 0.0590 for measurements using ROUGE-2, ROUGE 0.0997 and 0.1019 for measurements using the proposed regression-SU4. Model can perform measurements of the significance of the position of the sentence in the document well

A complex network approach to stylometry

Statistical methods have been widely employed to study the fundamental properties of language. In recent years, methods from complex and dynamical systems proved useful to create several language models. Despite the large amount of studies devoted to represent texts with physical models, only a limited number of studies have shown how the properties of the underlying physical systems can be employed to improve the performance of natural language processing tasks. In this paper, I address this problem by devising complex networks methods that are able to improve the performance of current statistical methods. Using a fuzzy classification strategy, I show that the topological properties extracted from texts complement the traditional textual description. In several cases, the performance obtained with hybrid approaches outperformed the results obtained when only traditional or networked methods were used. Because the proposed model is generic, the framework devised here could be straightforwardly used to study similar textual applications where the topology plays a pivotal role in the description of the interacting agents.Comment: PLoS ONE, 2015 (to appear

Deep Learning for Semantic Video Understanding

The field of computer vision has long strived to extract understanding from images and videos sequences. The recent flood of video data along with massive increments in computing power have provided the perfect environment to generate advanced research to extract intelligence from video data. Video data is ubiquitous, occurring in numerous everyday activities such as surveillance, traffic, movies, sports, etc. This massive amount of video needs to be analyzed and processed efficiently to extract semantic features towards video understanding. Such capabilities could benefit surveillance, video analytics and visually challenged people. While watching a long video, humans have the uncanny ability to bypass unnecessary information and concentrate on the important events. These key events can be used as a higher-level description or summary of a long video. Inspired by the human visual cortex, this research affords such abilities in computers using neural networks. Useful or interesting events are first extracted from a video and then deep learning methodologies are used to extract natural language summaries for each video sequence. Previous approaches of video description either have been domain specific or use a template based approach to fill detected objects such as verbs or actions to constitute a grammatically correct sentence. This work involves exploiting temporal contextual information for sentence generation while working on wide domain datasets. Current state-of- the-art video description methodologies are well suited for small video clips whereas this research can also be applied to long sequences of video. This work proposes methods to generate visual summaries of long videos, and in addition proposes techniques to annotate and generate textual summaries of the videos using recurrent networks. End to end video summarization immensely depends on abstractive summarization of video descriptions. State-of- the-art neural language & attention joint models have been used to generate textual summaries. Interesting segments of long video are extracted based on image quality as well as cinematographic and consumer preference. This novel approach will be a stepping stone for a variety of innovative applications such as video retrieval, automatic summarization for visually impaired persons, automatic movie review generation, video question and answering systems

Probing the topological properties of complex networks modeling short written texts

In recent years, graph theory has been widely employed to probe several language properties. More specifically, the so-called word adjacency model has been proven useful for tackling several practical problems, especially those relying on textual stylistic analysis. The most common approach to treat texts as networks has simply considered either large pieces of texts or entire books. This approach has certainly worked well -- many informative discoveries have been made this way -- but it raises an uncomfortable question: could there be important topological patterns in small pieces of texts? To address this problem, the topological properties of subtexts sampled from entire books was probed. Statistical analyzes performed on a dataset comprising 50 novels revealed that most of the traditional topological measurements are stable for short subtexts. When the performance of the authorship recognition task was analyzed, it was found that a proper sampling yields a discriminability similar to the one found with full texts. Surprisingly, the support vector machine classification based on the characterization of short texts outperformed the one performed with entire books. These findings suggest that a local topological analysis of large documents might improve its global characterization. Most importantly, it was verified, as a proof of principle, that short texts can be analyzed with the methods and concepts of complex networks. As a consequence, the techniques described here can be extended in a straightforward fashion to analyze texts as time-varying complex networks

Automatic Generation of Text Summaries - Challenges, proposals and experiments

Los estudiantes e investigadores en el área de procesamiento deenguaje natural, inteligencia artificial, ciencias computacionales y lingüística computacional serán quizá los primeros interesados en este libro. No obstante, también se pretende introducir a público no especializado en esta prometedora área de investigación; por ello, hemos traducido al español algunos tecnicismos y anglicismos, propios de esta disciplina, pero sin dejar de mencionar, en todo momento, su término en inglés para evitar confusiones y lograr que aquellos lectores interesados puedan ampliar sus fuentes de conocimiento.Este libro presenta un método computacional novedoso, a nivel internacional, para la generación automática de resúmenes de texto, pues supera la calidad de los que actualmente se pueden crear. Es decir, es resultado de una investigación que buscó métodos y modelos computacionales lo menos dependientes del lenguaje y dominio