A topic-based sentence representation for extractive text summarization

Nikolaos Gialitsis, Nikiforos Pittaras, Panagiotis Stamatopoulos


Abstract
In this study, we examine the effect of probabilistic topic model-based word representations, on sentence-based extractive summarization. We formulate the task of summary extraction as a binary classification problem, and we test a variety of machine learning algorithms, exploring a range of different settings. An wide experimental evaluation on the MultiLing 2015 MSS dataset illustrates that topic-based representations can prove beneficial to the extractive summarization process in terms of F1, ROUGE-L and ROUGE-W scores, compared to a TF-IDF baseline, with QDA-based analysis providing the best results.
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W19-8905
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Proceedings of the Workshop MultiLing 2019: Summarization Across Languages, Genres and Sources
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September
Year:
2019
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Varna, Bulgaria
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George Giannakopoulos
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RANLP
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INCOMA Ltd.
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26–34
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https://aclanthology.org/W19-8905
DOI:
10.26615/978-954-452-058-8_005
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Nikolaos Gialitsis, Nikiforos Pittaras, and Panagiotis Stamatopoulos. 2019. A topic-based sentence representation for extractive text summarization. In Proceedings of the Workshop MultiLing 2019: Summarization Across Languages, Genres and Sources, pages 26–34, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd..
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A topic-based sentence representation for extractive text summarization (Gialitsis et al., RANLP 2019)
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