Query-relevant summarization using FAQs

  • Authors:
  • Adam Berger;Vibhu O. Mittal

  • Affiliations:
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;Just Research, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • ACL '00 Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

This paper introduces a statistical model for query-relevant summarization: succinctly characterizing the relevance of a document to a query. Learning parameter values for the proposed model requires a large collection of summarized documents, which we do not have, but as a proxy, we use a collection of FAQ (frequently-asked question) documents. Taking a learning approach enables a principled, quantitative evaluation of the proposed system, and the results of some initial experiments---on a collection of Usenet FAQs and on a FAQ-like set of customer-submitted questions to several large retail companies---suggest the plausibility of learning for summarization.