A comprehensive comparative evaluation of RST-based summarization methods

ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Uzêda, Vinícius Rodrigues ^a   Pardo, Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro ^a   Nunes, Maria Das Graças Volpe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Rhetorical structure theory; Text summarization

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; AUTOMATIC TEXT SUMMARIZATION; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; HYBRID METHOD; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; PORTUGUESE LANGUAGES; RHETORICAL STRUCTURE THEORY; TEXT SEGMENTS; TEXT SUMMARIZATION; VOTING SYSTEMS;

ABSTRACTING; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; VOTING MACHINES;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 77952927125     PISSN: 15504875     EISSN: 15504883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1767756.1767757     Document Type: Article

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