Using topic themes for multi-document summarization

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Harabagiu, Sanda ^a   Lacatusu, Finley ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Summarization; Topic representations; Topic themes

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION RESULTS; MULTI-DOCUMENT; MULTI-DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION; SUMMARIZATION; TOPIC REPRESENTATIONS; TOPIC THEMES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80051481326     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1777432.1777436     Document Type: Article

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