Using query expansion in graph-based approach for query-focused multi-document summarization

  • Authors:

  • Lin Zhao;Lide Wu;Xuanjing Huang

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel query expansion method, which is combined in the graph-based algorithm for query-focused multi-document summarization, so as to resolve the problem of information limit in the original query. Our approach makes use of both the sentence-to-sentence relations and the sentence-to-word relations to select the query biased informative words from the document set and use them as query expansions to improve the sentence ranking result. Compared to previous query expansion approaches, our approach can capture more relevant information with less noise. We performed experiments on the data of document understanding conference (DUC) 2005 and DUC 2006, and the evaluation results show that the proposed query expansion method can significantly improve the system performance and make our system comparable to the state-of-the-art systems.