Improving Opinion Summarization by Assessing Sentence Importance in On-line Reviews

  • Rafael T. Anchiêta USP
  • Rogério F. de Sousa USP
  • Raimundo S. Moura USP
  • Thiago A. S. Pardo USP

Abstract


This paper describes an approach for improving a state of the art opinion summarization method, incorporating the assessment of sentence importance in on-line reviews. We compare the enriched method to its original version and show that we significantly outperform it, producing more informative summaries.

Published
2017-10-02
ANCHIÊTA, Rafael T.; SOUSA, Rogério F. de; MOURA, Raimundo S.; PARDO, Thiago A. S.. Improving Opinion Summarization by Assessing Sentence Importance in On-line Reviews. In: BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM IN INFORMATION AND HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY (STIL), 1. , 2017, Uberlândia/MG. Anais [...]. Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, 2017 . p. 32-26.