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Beyond SumBasic: Task-focused summarization with sentence simplification and lexical expansion.

Lucy Vanderwende¹, Hisami Suzuki¹, Chris Brockett¹

¹Microsoft Research, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052, USA.

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|April 15, 2020

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This study introduces a novel system for topic-focused multi-document summarization, achieving top rankings in human evaluations for summary quality and topic relevance.

Keywords:

Lexical expansion Multi-document summarization NLP Query expansion Sentence simplification Summarization

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Area of Science:

Natural Language Processing
Artificial Intelligence

Background:

Growing demand for automated summarization systems tailored to specific user queries.
Existing systems often lack the ability to precisely focus on a given topic.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and evaluate a novel system for topic-focused multi-document summarization.
To assess the contribution of individual system components to overall performance.

Main Methods:

Developed a system integrating extractive summarization, topic-focusing, sentence simplification, and lexical expansion.
Conducted experiments on DUC2005 and DUC2006 datasets using automatic and human evaluation metrics.

Main Results:

System achieved first place in overall mean Pyramid score among 22 systems in human evaluation.
System ranked third out of 35 systems for summary responsiveness to the topic in human evaluation.

Conclusions:

The proposed system effectively addresses topic-focused multi-document summarization.
The integration of specialized components significantly enhances summary quality and topic adherence.