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Accurate user directed summarization from existing tools
This paper describes a set of experimental
results produced from the TIPSTER
SUMMAC initiative on user directed
summaries: document summaries generated in
the context of an information need expressed
as a query. The summarizer that was
evaluated was based on a set of existing
statistical techniques that had been applied
successfully to the INQUERY retrieval system.
The techniques proved to have a wider utility,
however, as the summarizer was one of the
better performing systems in the SUMMAC
evaluation. The design of this summarizer is
presented with a range of evaluations: both
those provided by SUMMAC as well as a set of
preliminary, more informal, evaluations that
examined additional aspects of the summaries.
Amongst other conclusions, the results reveal
that users can judge the relevance of
documents from their summary almost as
accurately as if they had had access to the
document’s full text
Generating indicative-informative summaries with SumUM
We present and evaluate SumUM, a text summarization system that takes a raw technical text as input and produces an indicative informative summary. The indicative part of the summary identifies the topics of the document, and the informative part elaborates on some of these topics according to the reader's interest. SumUM motivates the topics, describes entities, and defines concepts. It is a first step for exploring the issue of dynamic summarization. This is accomplished through a process of shallow syntactic and semantic analysis, concept identification, and text regeneration. Our method was developed through the study of a corpus of abstracts written by professional abstractors. Relying on human judgment, we have evaluated indicativeness, informativeness, and text acceptability of the automatic summaries. The results thus far indicate good performance when compared with other summarization technologies
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