Deriving event relevance from the ontology constructed with formal concept analysis

  • Authors:
  • Wei Xu;Wenjie Li;Mingli Wu;Wei Li;Chunfa Yuan

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong;Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong;Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong;Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong;Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, China

  • Venue:
  • CICLing'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a novel approach to derive event relevance from event ontology constructed with Formal Concept Analysis (FCA), a mathematical approach to data analysis and knowledge representation. The ontology is built from a set of relevant documents and according to the named entities associated to the events. Various relevance measures are explored, from binary to scaled, and from symmetrical to asymmetrical associations. We then apply the derived event relevance to the task of multi-document summarization. The experiments on DUC 2004 data set show that the relevant-event-based approaches outperform the independent-event-based approach.