Summarization system evaluation revisited: N-gram graphs

  • Authors:
  • George Giannakopoulos;Vangelis Karkaletsis;George Vouros;Panagiotis Stamatopoulos

  • Affiliations:
  • National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos, Demokritos, Greece;National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos, Demokritos, Greece;University of the Aegean;University of Athens

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing (TSLP)
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This article presents a novel automatic method (AutoSummENG) for the evaluation of summarization systems, based on comparing the character n-gram graphs representation of the extracted summaries and a number of model summaries. The presented approach is language neutral, due to its statistical nature, and appears to hold a level of evaluation performance that matches and even exceeds other contemporary evaluation methods. Within this study, we measure the effectiveness of different representation methods, namely, word and character n-gram graph and histogram, different n-gram neighborhood indication methods as well as different comparison methods between the supplied representations. A theory for the a priori determination of the methods' parameters along with supporting experiments concludes the study to provide a complete alternative to existing methods concerning the automatic summary system evaluation process.