Compressing Multi-document Summaries through Sentence Simplification

Sara Botelho Silveira, Antonio Branco

2013

Abstract

Multi-document summarization aims at creating a single summary based on the information conveyed by a collection of texts. After the candidate sentences have been identified and ordered, it is time to select which will be included in the summary. In this paper, we propose an approach that uses sentence simplification, both lexical and syntactic, to help improve the compression step in the summarization process. Simplification is performed by removing specific sentential constructions conveying information that can be considered to be less relevant to the general message of the summary. Thus, the rationale is that sentence simplification not only removes expendable information, but also makes room for further relevant data in a summary.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Botelho Silveira S. and Branco A. (2013). Compressing Multi-document Summaries through Sentence Simplification . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8565-39-6, pages 111-119. DOI: 10.5220/0004251201110119

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart13,
author={Sara Botelho Silveira and Antonio Branco},
title={Compressing Multi-document Summaries through Sentence Simplification},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,},
year={2013},
pages={111-119},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004251201110119},
isbn={978-989-8565-39-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,
TI - Compressing Multi-document Summaries through Sentence Simplification
SN - 978-989-8565-39-6
AU - Botelho Silveira S.
AU - Branco A.
PY - 2013
SP - 111
EP - 119
DO - 10.5220/0004251201110119