Attention, intentions, and the structure of discourse
Computational Linguistics
Term-weighting approaches in automatic text retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Automatic condensation of electronic publications by sentence selection
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: summarizing text
Assessing agreement on classification tasks: the kappa statistic
Computational Linguistics
Foundations of statistical natural language processing
Foundations of statistical natural language processing
Summarizing text documents: sentence selection and evaluation metrics
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Seeing the whole in parts: text summarization for web browsing on handheld devices
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on World Wide Web
Generic text summarization using relevance measure and latent semantic analysis
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Generic summaries for indexing in information retrieval
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
The Theory and Practice of Discourse Parsing and Summarization
The Theory and Practice of Discourse Parsing and Summarization
Introduction to the special issue on summarization
Computational Linguistics - Summarization
Computing representations of the structure of written discourse
Computing representations of the structure of written discourse
A prosodic analysis of discourse segments in direction-giving monologues
ACL '96 Proceedings of the 34th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Abstract generation based on rhetorical structure extraction
COLING '94 Proceedings of the 15th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Fast generation of abstracts from general domain text corpora by extracting relevant sentences
COLING '96 Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Building a discourse-tagged corpus in the framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory
SIGDIAL '01 Proceedings of the Second SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue - Volume 16
Sentence extraction for legal text summarisation
IJCAI'05 Proceedings of the 19th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Discourse indicators for content selection in summarization
SIGDIAL '10 Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Discourse constraints for document compression
Computational Linguistics
Random walks on text structures
CICLing'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
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Sentence ranking is a crucial part of generating text summaries. We compared human sentence rankings obtained in a psycholinguistic experiment to three different approaches to sentence ranking: A simple paragraph-based approach intended as a baseline, two word-based approaches, and two coherence-based approaches. In the paragraph-based approach, sentences in the beginning of paragraphs received higher importance ratings than other sentences. The word-based approaches determined sentence rankings based on relative word frequencies (Luhn (1958); Salton & Buckley (1988)). Coherence-based approaches determined sentence rankings based on some property of the coherence structure of a text (Marcu (2000); Page et al. (1998)). Our results suggest poor performance for the simple paragraph-based approach, whereas word-based approaches perform remarkably well. The best performance was achieved by a coherence-based approach where coherence structures are represented in a non-tree structure. Most approaches also outperformed the commercially available MSWord summarizer.