Topic-Specific Text-Item(s) Summarization Task

A Topic-Specific Text-Item(s) Summarization Task is a text summarization task that accepts a summary topic to focus the resulting summary content.

• Context:
  • It can range from being a Topic-focused Single-Document Summarization Task to being a Topic-focused Multi-Document Summarization Task.
  • It can be solved by a Topic-focused Document Summarization System (that implements a Topic-focused Document Summarization Algorithm.
  • It can support a Question Answering Task.
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• Example(s):
  • DUC 2005 Task, DUC 2006 Task.
  • a Automated News Summarization Task (news summarization).
  • a Automated Contract Summarization Task (contract summarization).
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Guided Text Summarization Task.
• See: Information Retrieval Task.

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References

2008

• (Wan, 2008) ⇒ Xiaojun Wan. (2008). “Using only cross-document relationships for both generic and topic-focused multi-document summarizations.” In: Inf. Retr., 11(1). 10.1007/s10791-007-9037-5.
  • QUOTE: ... Topic-focused summarization differs from generic summarization in that given a specified topic description (ie user profile, user query), topic-focused summarization is to create from the documents a summary which either answers the information need expressed in the topic or ...

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