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Who wrote What Where: Analyzing the content of human and automatic summaries

Published

Author(s)

Karolina K. Owczarzak, Hoa T. Dang

Abstract

Abstractive summarization has been a long-standing and long-term goal in automatic summarization, because systems that can generate abstracts demonstrate a deeper understanding of language and the meaning of documents than systems that merely extract sentences from those documents. Genest (2009) showed that summaries from the top automatic summarizers are judged as comparable to manual extractive summaries, and both are judged to be far less responsive than manual abstracts, As the state of the art approaches the limits of extractive summarization, it becomes even more pressing to advance abstractive summarization. However, abstractive summarization has been sidetracked by questions of what qualifies as important information, and how do we find it? The Guided Summarization task introduced at the Text Analysis Conference 2010 attempts to neutralize both of these problems by introducing topic categories and lists of aspects that a responsive summary should address. This design results in more similar human models, giving the automatic summarizers a more focused target to pursue, and also provides detailed diagnostics of summary content, which can can help build better meaning-oriented summarization systems.
Proceedings Title
Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Conference Dates
June 19-24, 2011
Conference Location
Portland, OR
Conference Title
ACL-HLT2011: The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

Keywords

automatic summarization, summarization

Citation

Owczarzak, K. and Dang, H. (2011), Who wrote What Where: Analyzing the content of human and automatic summaries, Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Portland, OR, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=908514 (Accessed March 28, 2024)
Created June 23, 2011, Updated February 19, 2017