Egan, Charlie; Siddharthan, Advaith and Wyner, Adam
(2016).
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Abstract
Online communities host growing numbers of discussions amongst large groups of participants on all manner of topics. This user-generated content contains millions of statements of opinions and ideas. We propose an abstractive approach to summarize such argumentative discussions, making key content accessible through ‘point’ extraction, where a point is a verb and its syntactic arguments. Our approach uses both dependency parse information and verb case frames to identify and extract valid points, and generates an abstractive summary that discusses the key points being made in the debate. We performed a human evaluation of our approach using a corpus of online political debates and report significant improvements over a high-performing extractive summarizer.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2016 Association for Computational Linguistics |
| ISBN: | 1-945626-17-8, 978-1-945626-17-3 |
| Academic Unit/School: | Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) |
| Item ID: | 58723 |
| Depositing User: | Advaith Siddharthan |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jan 2019 13:27 |
| Last Modified: | 04 May 2019 10:12 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/58723 |
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