Improving summarization performance by sentence compression: a pilot study

In this paper we study the effectiveness of applying sentence compression on an extraction based multi-document summarization system. Our results show that pure syntactic-based compression does not improve system performance. Topic signature-based reranking of compressed sentences does not help much either. However reranking using an oracle showed a significant improvement remains possible.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: IRAL
• Authors: Chin-Yew Lin
• Keywords: Information Retrieval, IRAL 2003, Multi-document Summarization System, Pure Syntactic-based Compression, Topic Signature-based Reranking