Extractive chinese spoken document summarization using probabilistic ranking models

  • Authors:
  • Yi-Ting Chen;Suhan Yu;Hsin-Min Wang;Berlin Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei;National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei;Academia Sinica, Taipei;National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei

  • Venue:
  • ISCSLP'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Chinese Spoken Language Processing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The purpose of extractive summarization is to automatically select indicative sentences, passages, or paragraphs from an original document according to a certain target summarization ratio, and then sequence them to form a concise summary. In this paper, in contrast to conventional approaches, our objective is to deal with the extractive summarization problem under a probabilistic modeling framework. We investigate the use of the hidden Markov model (HMM) for spoken document summarization, in which each sentence of a spoken document is treated as an HMM for generating the document, and the sentences are ranked and selected according to their likelihoods. In addition, the relevance model (RM) of each sentence, estimated from a contemporary text collection, is integrated with the HMM model to improve the representation of the sentence model. The experiments were performed on Chinese broadcast news compiled in Taiwan. The proposed approach achieves noticeable performance gains over conventional summarization approaches.