Improving summarization performance by sentence compression: a pilot study

  • Authors:
  • Chin-Yew Lin

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA

  • Venue:
  • AsianIR '03 Proceedings of the sixth international workshop on Information retrieval with Asian languages - Volume 11
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In this paper we study the effectiveness of applying sentence compression on an extraction based multi-document summarization system. Our results show that pure syntactic-based compression does not improve system performance. Topic signature-based reranking of compressed sentences does not help much either. However reranking using an oracle showed a significant improvement remains possible.