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Area of Science:

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning

Background:

  • Extractive document summarization (EDS) typically treats sentence extraction as a sequence labeling task.
  • Current EDS methods often overlook inter-sentence relationships and document context.
  • Existing approaches using sentence position information can lead to sentence-leading bias, particularly in news datasets.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel 'sentence centrality' approach for extractive document summarization.
  • To address the limitations of separate sentence extraction and sentence-leading bias.
  • To enhance sentence representation by incorporating sentence-document relationships and positional information.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a novel sentence centrality measure based on directed graphs.
  • Integrated sentence centrality into sentence representation to implicitly strengthen sentence-document relevance.
  • Replaced traditional sentence position information with sentence centrality to mitigate bias.

Main Results:

  • Experimental results on the CNN/Daily Mail dataset demonstrated significant improvements in EDS models.
  • The proposed sentence centrality effectively captures sentence-document relationships and positional context.
  • The method successfully reduced sentence-leading bias without compromising model performance.

Conclusions:

  • Sentence centrality offers a robust solution for improving extractive document summarization.
  • This approach enhances the understanding of sentence importance within a document context.
  • The findings suggest a promising direction for future research in automated text summarization.