Abstraction summarization for managing the biomedical research literature

  • Authors:
  • Marcelo Fiszman;Thomas C. Rindflesch;Halil Kilicoglu

  • Affiliations:
  • National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD;National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD;National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD

  • Venue:
  • CLS '04 Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL Workshop on Computational Lexical Semantics
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We explore a semantic abstraction approach to automatic summarization in the biomedical domain. The approach relies on a semantic processor that functions as the source interpreter and produces a list of predications. A transformation stage then generalizes and condenses this list, ultimately generating a conceptual condensate for a disorder input topic. The final condensate is displayed in graphical form. We provide a set of principles for the transformation stage and describe the application of this approach to multidocument input. Finally, we examine the characteristics and quality of the condensates produced.