Improving LSA-based summarization with anaphora resolution

  • Authors:
  • Josef Steinberger;Mijail A. Kabadjov;Massimo Poesio;Olivia Sanchez-Graillet

  • Affiliations:
  • University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic;University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, United Kingdom;University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, United Kingdom;University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • HLT '05 Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We propose an approach to summarization exploiting both lexical information and the output of an automatic anaphoric resolver, and using Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) to identify the main terms. We demonstrate that adding anaphoric information results in significant performance improvements over a previously developed system, in which only lexical terms are used as the input to SVD. However, we also show that how anaphoric information is used is crucial: whereas using this information to add new terms does result in improved performance, simple substitution makes the performance worse.