Using only cross-document relationships for both generic and topic-focused multi-document summarizations |
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| Authors: | Xiaojun Wan |
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| Institution: | (1) Institute of Computer Science & Technology, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China |
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| Abstract: | In recent years graph-ranking based algorithms have been proposed for single document summarization and generic multi-document
summarization. The algorithms make use of the “votings” or “recommendations” between sentences to evaluate the importance
of the sentences in the documents. This study aims to differentiate the cross-document and within-document relationships between
sentences for generic multi-document summarization and adapt the graph-ranking based algorithm for topic-focused summarization.
The contributions of this study are two-fold: (1) For generic multi-document summarization, we apply the graph-based ranking
algorithm based on each kind of sentence relationship and explore their relative importance for summarization performance.
(2) For topic-focused multi-document summarization, we propose to integrate the relevance of the sentences to the specified
topic into the graph-ranking based method. Each individual kind of sentence relationship is also differentiated and investigated
in the algorithm. Experimental results on DUC 2002–DUC 2005 data demonstrate the great importance of the cross-document relationships
between sentences for both generic and topic-focused multi-document summarizations. Even the approach based only on the cross-document
relationships can perform better than or at least as well as the approaches based on both kinds of relationships between sentences.
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| Keywords: | Multi-document summarization Topic-focused summarization Cross-document relationship Graph-ranking |
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