On Strategies of Human Multi-Document Summarization

  • Renata T. Camargo UFSCar
  • Ariani Di-Felippo UFSCar
  • Thiago A. S. Pardo USP

Abstract


In this paper, using a corpus with manual alignments of human-written summaries and their source news, we show that such summaries consist of information that has specific linguistic features, revealing human content selection strategies, and that these strategies produce indicative results that are competitive with a state of the art system for Portuguese.

Published
2015-11-04
CAMARGO, Renata T.; DI-FELIPPO, Ariani; PARDO, Thiago A. S.. On Strategies of Human Multi-Document Summarization. In: BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM IN INFORMATION AND HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY (STIL), 1. , 2015, Natal/RN. Anais [...]. Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, 2015 . p. 141-150.