Integrating cohesion and coherence for automatic summarization

  • Authors:
  • Laura Alonso i Alemany;Maria Fuentes Fort

  • Affiliations:
  • Universitat de Barcelona;Universitat de Girona

  • Venue:
  • EACL '03 Proceedings of the tenth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper presents the integration of cohesive properties of text with coherence relations, to obtain an adequate representation of text for automatic summarization. A summarizer based on Lexical Chains is enchanced with rhetorical and argumentative structure obtained via Discourse Markers.When evaluated with newspaper corpus, this integration yields only slight improvement in the resulting summaries and cannot beat a dummy baseline consisting of the first sentence in the document. Nevertheless, we argue that this approach relies on basic linguistic mechanisms and is therefore genre-independent.