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Learning from the past: Improving news summarization with past news articles

  • Beihang University
  • Logistics Science Research Institute of PLA
  • Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore

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Abstract

One common approach to single-document news summarization involves scoring and ranking individual sentences within an input story. We demonstrate that the accuracy of this scoring process can be improved by looking beyond the text found within each input news story. Leveraging on an external corpus of past news articles, we show that summarization performance can be greatly enhanced if we also consider signals and cues from other related news stories. Working on top of a basic keyword-based summarization system, we expanded the set of keywords we have from the original news stories with related stories retrieved from the external corpus. With this enhancement, we are able to get significant improvements of at least 10% and 16% in ROUGE-1 and ROUGE-2 respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2015 International Conference on Asian Language Processing, IALP 2015
EditorsBin Ma, Min Zhang, Yanfeng Lu, Minghui Dong, Wenliang Chen
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages140-143
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781467395953
DOIs
StatePublished - 12 Apr 2016
EventInternational Conference on Asian Language Processing, IALP 2015 - Suzhou, China
Duration: 24 Oct 201525 Oct 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings of 2015 International Conference on Asian Language Processing, IALP 2015

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Asian Language Processing, IALP 2015
Country/TerritoryChina
CitySuzhou
Period24/10/1525/10/15

Keywords

  • keyword discovery
  • single document summarization

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