Siddharthan, Advaith; Nenkova, Ani and McKeown, Kathleen
(2004).
| URL: | http://www.anthology.aclweb.org/C/C04/C04-1129.pdf |
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| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | https://doi.org/10.3115/1220355.1220484 |
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Abstract
In this paper, we explore the use of automatic syntactic simplification for improving content selection in multi-document summarization. In particular, we show how simplifying parentheticals by removing relative clauses and appositives results in improved sentence clustering, by forcing clustering based on central rather than background information. We argue that the inclusion of parenthetical information in a summary is a reference-generation task rather than a content-selection one, and implement a baseline reference rewriting module. We perform our evaluations on the test sets from the 2003 and 2004 Document Understanding Conference and report that simplifying parentheticals results in significant improvement on the automated evaluation metric Rouge.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2004 ACL |
| Academic Unit/School: | Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) |
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| Item ID: | 58875 |
| Depositing User: | Advaith Siddharthan |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Jan 2019 16:35 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Mar 2019 11:13 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/58875 |
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