This paper presents the integration of cohesive properties of text with coherence relations, to obtain an adequate representation of text for automatic summarization. A summarizer...
This paper describes a new method for computing lexical chains. These are sequences of semantically related words that reflect a text’s cohesive structure. In contrast to previo...
Coh-Metrix is a web-based application currently in development that automatically evaluates text. It uses two central concepts from discourse processing: text-based cohesion and s...
David F. Dufty, Danielle S. McNamara, Max M. Louwe...
We propose an extractive summarization system with a novel non-generative probabilistic framework for speech summarization. One of the most underutilized features in extractive su...
Pascale Fung, Ricky Ho Yin Chan, Justin Jian Zhang
We argue that in general, the analysis of lexical cohesion factors in a document can drive a summarizer, as well as enable other content characterization tasks. More narrowly, thi...