TY - GEN
T1 - Development and evaluation of a multi-document summarization method focusing on research concepts and their research relationships
AU - Ou, Shiyan
AU - Khoo, Christopher S.G.
AU - Goh, Dion H.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - This paper reports the design and evaluation of a method for summarizing a set of related research abstracts. This summarization method extracts research concepts and their research relationships from different abstracts, integrates the extracted information across abstracts, and presents the integrated information in a Web-based interface to generate a multi-document summary. This study focused on sociology dissertation abstracts, but can be extended to other research abstracts. The summarization method was evaluated in a user study to assess the quality and usefulness of the generated summaries in comparison to a sentence extraction method used in MEAD and a method that extracts only research objective sentences. The evaluation results indicated that the majority of sociology researchers preferred our variable-based summary generated with the use of a taxonomy.
AB - This paper reports the design and evaluation of a method for summarizing a set of related research abstracts. This summarization method extracts research concepts and their research relationships from different abstracts, integrates the extracted information across abstracts, and presents the integrated information in a Web-based interface to generate a multi-document summary. This study focused on sociology dissertation abstracts, but can be extended to other research abstracts. The summarization method was evaluated in a user study to assess the quality and usefulness of the generated summaries in comparison to a sentence extraction method used in MEAD and a method that extracts only research objective sentences. The evaluation results indicated that the majority of sociology researchers preferred our variable-based summary generated with the use of a taxonomy.
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U2 - 10.1007/11599517_32
DO - 10.1007/11599517_32
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33744940557
SN - 3540308504
SN - 9783540308508
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 283
EP - 292
BT - Digital Libraries
T2 - 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2005
Y2 - 12 December 2005 through 15 December 2005
ER -