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Generating Coherent Extracts of Single Documents Using Latent Semantic Analysis (2003)
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@MISC{Miller03generatingcoherent,
author = {Tristan Miller and Tristan Miller},
title = {Generating Coherent Extracts of Single Documents Using Latent Semantic Analysis},
year = {2003}
}
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Abstract
A major problem with automatically-produced summaries in general, and extracts in particular, is that the output text often lacks textual coherence. Our goal is to improve the textual coherence of automatically produced extracts. We developed and implemented an algorithm which builds an initial extract composed solely of topic sentences, and then recursively fills in the lacunae by providing linking material from the original text between semantically dissimilar sentences. Our summarizer differs in architecture from most others in that it measures semantic similarity with latent semantic analysis (LSA), a factor analysis technique based on the vector-space model of information retrieval. We believed that the deep semantic relations discovered by LSA would assist in the identification and correction of abrupt topic shifts in the summaries. However, our experiments did not show a statistically significant difference in the coherence of summaries produced by our system as compared with a non-LSA version.
Keyphrases
coherent extract textual coherence significant difference initial extract deep semantic relation summarizer differs dissimilar sentence topic sentence semantic similarity vector-space model information retrieval latent semantic analysis non-lsa version original text automatically-produced summary major problem factor analysis technique abrupt topic shift
