Abstract— We present a novel approach to automatically extracting summary excerpts from audio and video. Our approach is to maximize the average similarity between the excerpt an...
As the amount of information on the Web grows, the ability to retrieve relevant information quickly and easily is necessary. The combination of ample news sources on the Web, litt...
Krysta Marie Svore, Lucy Vanderwende, Christopher ...
Abstract. Evaluation is one of the hardest tasks in automatic text summarization. It is perhaps even harder to determine how much a particular component of a summarization system c...
In recent years, there has been increased interest in topic-focused multi-document summarization. In this task, automatic summaries are produced in response to a specific informat...
Lucy Vanderwende, Hisami Suzuki, Chris Brockett, A...
We assess the current state of the art in speech summarization, by comparing a typical summarizer on two different domains: lecture data and the SWITCHBOARD corpus. Our results ca...