MSSF: a multi-document summarization framework based on submodularity

  • Authors:
  • Jingxuan Li;Lei Li;Tao Li

  • Affiliations:
  • Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA;Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA;Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Multi-document summarization aims to distill the most representative information from a set of documents to generate a summary. Given a set of documents as input, most of existing multi-document summarization approaches utilize different sentence selection techniques to extract a set of sentences from the document set as the summary. The submodularity hidden in textual-unit similarity motivates us to incorporate this property into our solution to multi-document summarization tasks. In this poster, we propose a new principled and versatile framework for different multi-document summarization tasks using the submodular function [8].