Cross-document summarization by concept classification

SIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 121-128

  Hardy, Hilda ^a   Shimizu, Nobuyuki ^a   Strzalkowski, Tomek ^a   Ting, Liu ^a   Wise, G Bowden ^b   Zhang, Xinyang ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Multi document summarization; N grams; Passage similarity; Summary; Term weights

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TEXT PROCESSING;

BAYESIAN CLASSIFIERS; CONCEPT CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION; DOCUMENT UNDERSTANDING CONFERENCE; MULTI-DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION; PASSAGE SIMILARITY; ROUTING SYSTEMS; TERM WEIGHTS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0036993131     PISSN: 01635840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/564396.564399     Document Type: Conference Paper

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