Experiments with CST-based multidocument summarization
TextGraphs-5 Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing
Formalizing CST-based content selection operations
PROPOR'10 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language
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This paper aims at presenting an analysis of content selection techniques for multidocument summarization based on the multidocument discourse theory CST (Cross-document Structure Theory). We approach the task of content selection by using CST-based operators and focus specifically on redundancy treatment, which is an important and pervasive problem in multidocument summarization. Our experiments with Brazilian Portuguese news texts show that CST improves summaries quality by exploring relations among texts. Particularly, redundancy is reduced by identifying common information among texts, especially when compression rate is low.