Comparing Commercial Tools and State-of-the-Art Methods for Generating Text Summaries

  • Authors:
  • René Arnulfo García-Hernández;Yulia Ledeneva;Griselda Matías Mendoza;Ángel Hernández Dominguez;Jorge Chavez;Alexander Gelbukh;José Luis Tapia Fabela

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • MICAI '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Eighth Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Nowadays, there are commercial tools that allow automatic generation of text summaries. However, it is not known the quality of the generated summaries and the method that it is used for the generation of the summaries using these commercial tools. This paper provides a study about the commercial tools such as Copernic Summarizer, Microsoft Office Word Summarizer 2003 and Microsoft Office Word Summarizer 2007, with the objective to detect which of them gives the summaries more similar to those made by a human. Furthermore, the comparison between commercial tools and state-of-the-art methods is realized. The experiments were carried out using DUC-2002 standard collection which contains 567 news in English.