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Exploring events and distributed representations of text in multi-document summ...
Marujo, L.; Ling, W.; Ribeiro, R.; Gershman, A.; Carbonell, J.; de Matos, D.; Neto, J. P.In this article, we explore an event detection framework to improve multi-document summarization. Our approach is based on a two-stage single-document method that extracts a collection of key phrases, which are then used in a centrality-as-relevance passage retrieval model. We explore how to adapt this single-document method for multi-document summarization methods that are able to use event information. The ev...
Summarization of films and documentaries based on subtitles and scripts
Aparício, M.; Figueiredo, P.; Raposo, F.; de Matos, D.; Ribeiro, R.; Marujo, L.We assess the performance of generic text summarization algorithms applied to films and documentaries, using extracts from news articles produced by reference models of extractive summarization. We use three datasets: (i) news articles, (ii) film scripts and subtitles, and (iii) documentary subtitles. Standard ROUGE metrics are used for comparing generated summaries against news abstracts, plot summaries, and s...