TextTiling: segmenting text into multi-paragraph subtopic passages
Computational Linguistics
The automated acquisition of topic signatures for text summarization
COLING '00 Proceedings of the 18th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Automatic acquisition of domain knowledge for Information Extraction
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ANARESOLUTION '97 Proceedings of a Workshop on Operational Factors in Practical, Robust Anaphora Resolution for Unrestricted Texts
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AAAI'96 Proceedings of the thirteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Topic themes for multi-document summarization
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
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SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Experiments with interactive question-answering
ACL '05 Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
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COLING '04 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computational Linguistics
FERRET: interactive question-answering for real-world environments
COLING-ACL '06 Proceedings of the COLING/ACL on Interactive presentation sessions
Satisfying information needs with multi-document summaries
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Topic-driven multi-document summarization with encyclopedic knowledge and spreading activation
EMNLP '08 Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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IQA '06 Proceedings of the Interactive Question Answering Workshop at HLT-NAACL 2006
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SumQA '06 Proceedings of the Workshop on Task-Focused Summarization and Question Answering
Using topic themes for multi-document summarization
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Using temporal cues for segmenting texts into events
IceTAL'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Advances in natural language processing
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We consider the problem of modeling information about the topic discussed in a text. We describe in this paper two incremental enhancements of the topic signatures introduced by (Lin and Hovy, 2000). The first enhancement considers topic representations in terms of relevant topic relations instead of relevant terms. The second enhancement is based on ranking the topic themes. Topic representations are integrated in two NLP applications: Information Extraction and Multi-Document Summarization. Our experiments show that incorporating the two enhanced representations in both applications produces substantial improvements over previously-proposed topic representations that can be acquired automatically.