Summarizing encyclopedic term descriptions on the web

  • Authors:
  • Atsushi Fujii;Tetsuya Ishikawa

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Tsukuba, Kasuga, Tsukuba, Japan;University of Tsukuba, Kasuga, Tsukuba, Japan

  • Venue:
  • COLING '04 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We are developing an automatic method to compile an encyclopedic corpus from the Web. In our previous work, paragraph-style descriptions for a term are extracted from Web pages and organized based on domains. However, these descriptions are independent and do not comprise a condensed text as in hand-crafted encyclopedias. To resolve this problem, we propose a summarization method, which produces a single text from multiple descriptions. The resultant summary concisely describes a term from different viewpoints. We also show the effectiveness of our method by means of experiments.