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    Gold Standard Online Debates Summaries and First Experiments Towards Automatic Summarization of Online Debate Data

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    Usage of online textual media is steadily increasing. Daily, more and more news stories, blog posts and scientific articles are added to the online volumes. These are all freely accessible and have been employed extensively in multiple research areas, e.g. automatic text summarization, information retrieval, information extraction, etc. Meanwhile, online debate forums have recently become popular, but have remained largely unexplored. For this reason, there are no sufficient resources of annotated debate data available for conducting research in this genre. In this paper, we collected and annotated debate data for an automatic summarization task. Similar to extractive gold standard summary generation our data contains sentences worthy to include into a summary. Five human annotators performed this task. Inter-annotator agreement, based on semantic similarity, is 36% for Cohen's kappa and 48% for Krippendorff's alpha. Moreover, we also implement an extractive summarization system for online debates and discuss prominent features for the task of summarizing online debate data automatically.Comment: accepted and presented at the CICLING 2017 - 18th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistic

    Gold Standard Online Debates Summaries and First Experiments Towards Automatic Summarization of Online Debate Data

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    Usage of online textual media is steadily increasing. Daily, more and more news stories, blog posts and scientific articles are added to the online volumes. These are all freely accessible and have been employed extensively in multiple research areas, e.g. automatic text summarization, information retrieval, information extraction, etc. Meanwhile, online debate forums have recently become popular, but have remained largely unexplored. For this reason, there are no sufficient resources of annotated debate data available for conducting research in this genre. In this paper, we collected and annotated debate data for an automatic summarization task. Similar to extractive gold standard summary generation our data contains sentences worthy to include into a summary. Five human annotators performed this task. Inter-annotator agreement, based on semantic similarity, is 36% for Cohen's kappa and 48% for Krippendorff's alpha. Moreover, we also implement an extractive summarization system for online debates and discuss prominent features for the task of summarizing online debate data automatically

    Domain-Focused Summarization of Polarized Debates

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    Due to the exponential growth of Internet use, textual content is increasingly published in online media. In everyday, more and more news content, blog posts, and scientific articles are published to the online volumes and thus open doors for the text summarization research community to conduct research on those areas. Whilst there are freely accessible repositories for such content, online debates which have recently become popular have remained largely unexplored. This thesis addresses the challenge in applying text summarization to summarize online debates. We view that the task of summarizing online debates should not only focus on summarization techniques but also should look further on presenting the summaries into the formats favored by users. In this thesis, we present how a summarization system is developed to generate online debate summaries in accordance with a designed output, called the Combination 2. It is the combination of two summaries. The primary objective of the first summary, Chart Summary, is to visualize the debate summary as a bar chart in high-level view. The chart consists of the bars conveying clusters of the salient sentences, labels showing short descriptions of the bars, and numbers of salient sentences conversed in the two opposing sides. The other part, Side-By-Side Summary, linked to the Chart Summary, shows a more detailed summary of an online debate related to a bar clicked by a user. The development of the summarization system is divided into three processes. In the first process, we create a gold standard dataset of online debates. The dataset contains a collection of debate comments that have been subjectively annotated by 5 judgments. We develop a summarization system with key features to help identify salient sentences in the comments. The sentences selected by the system are evaluated against the annotation results. We found that the system performance outperforms the baseline. The second process begins with the generation of Chart Summary from the salient sentences selected by the system. We propose a framework with two branches where each branch presents either a term-based clustering and the term-based labeling method or X-means based clustering and the MI labeling strategy. Our evaluation results indicate that the X-means clustering approach is a better alternative for clustering. In the last process, we view the generation of Side-By-Side Summary as a contradiction detection task. We create two debate entailment datasets derived from the two clustering approaches and annotate them with the Contradiction and Non-Contradiction relations. We develop a classifier and investigate combinations of features that maximize the F1 scores. Based on the proposed features, we discovered that the combinations of at least two features to the maximum of eight features yield good results

    Document Summarization with Latent Queries

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    Word-level Text Highlighting of Medical Texts for Telehealth Services

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    The medical domain is often subject to information overload. The digitization of healthcare, constant updates to online medical repositories, and increasing availability of biomedical datasets make it challenging to effectively analyze the data. This creates additional work for medical professionals who are heavily dependent on medical data to complete their research and consult their patients. This paper aims to show how different text highlighting techniques can capture relevant medical context. This would reduce the doctors' cognitive load and response time to patients by facilitating them in making faster decisions, thus improving the overall quality of online medical services. Three different word-level text highlighting methodologies are implemented and evaluated. The first method uses TF-IDF scores directly to highlight important parts of the text. The second method is a combination of TF-IDF scores and the application of Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations to classification models. The third method uses neural networks directly to make predictions on whether or not a word should be highlighted. The results of our experiments show that the neural network approach is successful in highlighting medically-relevant terms and its performance is improved as the size of the input segment increases.Comment: 33 pages, 7 figures, 2 table

    Automated Classification of Argument Stance in Student Essays: A Linguistically Motivated Approach with an Application for Supporting Argument Summarization

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    This study describes a set of document- and sentence-level classification models designed to automate the task of determining the argument stance (for or against) of a student argumentative essay and the task of identifying any arguments in the essay that provide reasons in support of that stance. A suggested application utilizing these models is presented which involves the automated extraction of a single-sentence summary of an argumentative essay. This summary sentence indicates the overall argument stance of the essay from which the sentence was extracted and provides a representative argument in support of that stance. A novel set of document-level stance classification features motivated by linguistic research involving stancetaking language is described. Several document-level classification models incorporating these features are trained and tested on a corpus of student essays annotated for stance. These models achieve accuracies significantly above those of two baseline models. High-accuracy features used by these models include a dependency subtree feature incorporating information about the targets of any stancetaking language in the essay text and a feature capturing the semantic relationship between the essay prompt text and stancetaking language in the essay text. We also describe the construction of a corpus of essay sentences annotated for supporting argument stance. The resulting corpus is used to train and test two sentence-level classification models. The first model is designed to classify a given sentence as a supporting argument or as not a supporting argument, while the second model is designed to classify a supporting argument as holding a for or against stance. Features motivated by influential linguistic analyses of the lexical, discourse, and rhetorical features of supporting arguments are used to build these two models, both of which achieve accuracies above their respective baseline models. An application illustrating an interesting use-case for the models presented in this dissertation is described. This application incorporates all three classification models to extract a single sentence summarizing both the overall stance of a given text along with a convincing reason in support of that stance

    論述における談話構造および論理構造の解析

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