Centroid-based summarization of multiple documents

✍ Scribed by Dragomir R. Radev; Hongyan Jing; Małgorzata Styś; Daniel Tam

• Book ID: 113663399
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 442 KB
• Volume: 40
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0306-4573
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2003.10.006

✦ Synopsis

We present a multi-document summarizer, MEAD, which generates summaries using cluster centroids produced by a topic detection and tracking system. We describe two new techniques, a centroid-based summarizer, and an evaluation scheme based on sentence utility and subsumption. We have applied this evaluation to both single and multiple document summaries. Finally, we describe two user studies that test our models of multi-document summarization.