SUMMARIZING DOCUMENTS USING FRACTAL TECHNIQUES

M. Dolores Ruiz, Antonio B. Bailón

2007

Abstract

Every day we search new information in the web, and we found a lot of documents which contain pages with a great amount of information. There is a big demand for automatic summarization in a rapid and precise way. Many methods have been used in automatic extraction but most of them do not take into account the hierarchical structure of the documents. A novel method using the structure of the document was introduced by Yang and Wang in 2004. It is based in a fractal view method for controlling the information displayed. We explain its drawbacks and we solve them using the new concept of fractal dimension of a text document to achieve a better diversification of the extracted sentences improving the performance of the method.

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in Harvard Style

Dolores Ruiz M. and B. Bailón A. (2007). SUMMARIZING DOCUMENTS USING FRACTAL TECHNIQUES . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-91-7, pages 26-33. DOI: 10.5220/0002363300260033


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis07,
author={M. Dolores Ruiz and Antonio B. Bailón},
title={SUMMARIZING DOCUMENTS USING FRACTAL TECHNIQUES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={26-33},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002363300260033},
isbn={978-972-8865-91-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - SUMMARIZING DOCUMENTS USING FRACTAL TECHNIQUES
SN - 978-972-8865-91-7
AU - Dolores Ruiz M.
AU - B. Bailón A.
PY - 2007
SP - 26
EP - 33
DO - 10.5220/0002363300260033