Text-Item(s) Summarization Task
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A Text-Item(s) Summarization Task is a summarization task whose in put is text and is a language generation task that requires the creation of a textual summary for one or more text items.
- Context:
- Input: a Document Set.
- output: a Text Summary Document.
- metric: a Text Summarization Performance Metric.
- It can range from being a Manual Text Summarization Task to being an Automated Text Summarization Task.
- It can range from being a Document-Section Summarization Task to being an Entire-Document Summarization Task (such as a multi-document summarization task).
- It can range from being a Topic-Specific Text Summarization Task to being a Guided Text Summarization Task.
- It can range from being an Extractive Text Summarization Task to being an Abstractive Text Summarization Task.
- It can be supported by a Text Summarization System (that implements a text summarization algorithm).
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- Example(s):
- a Text Summarization Benchmark.
- News: Columbia's Newsblaster Project
http://newsblaster.cs.columbia.edu/
. - one in a Document Summarization Benchmark, such as a DUC Task.
- a Opinion Summarization Task.
- a Conversational Summarization Task.
- a Legal Text Summarization Task, such as contract revision difference summarization.
- a Dialog Summarization Task, such as customer support dialog summarization.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Relation Recognition.
References
2011
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_summarization#Document_Summarization (accessed 2011-Jun-13).
- QUOTE: Like keyphrase extraction, document summarization hopes to identify the essence of a text. The only real difference is that now we’re dealing with larger text units — whole sentences instead of words and phrases. While some work has been done in abstractive summarization (creating an abstract synopsis like that of a human), the majority of summarization systems are extractive (selecting a subset of sentences to place in a summary).
2004
- (Hu & Liu, 2004) ⇒ Minqing Hu, Bing Liu. (2004). “Mining and Summarizing Customer Reviews.” In: Proceedings of the tenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2004) doi:10.1145/1014052.1014073
2002
- (Radev et al., 2002) ⇒ Dragomir Radev, Eduard Hovy, and Kathleen R. McKeown. (2002). “Introduction to the Special Issue on Summarization.” In: Computational Linguistics, 28(4). doi:10.1162/089120102762671927
2001
- (Mani, 2001) ⇒ Inderjeet Mani. (2001). “Automatic Summarization." John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN:9027249865
- QUOTE: ... Informally, the goal of text summarization is to take a textual document, extract content from it and present the most important content to the user in a condensed form and in a manner sensitive to the user's or application's needs [13].
2000
- (Hahn & Mani, 2000) ⇒ Udo Hahn, and Inderjeet Mani. (2000). “The Challenges of Automatic Summarization.” In: Computer Journal, 33(11). doi:10.1109/2.881692
- QUOTE: Summarization -- the art of abstracting key content from one or more information sources -- has become an integral part of everyday life. People keep abreast of world affairs by listening to news bites.
1982
- (DeJong, 1982) ⇒ G. F. DeJong. (1982). “An overview of the FRUMP system.” In: Strategies for Natural Language Processing, W.G.Lehnert & M.H.Ringle (Eds).
- Domain specific
- Skimmed and summarised news articles.
- Template instantiation system
- Identified which articles belonged to a particular domain.