A Text Summarization Approach under the Influence of Textual Entailment

Elena Lloret, Óscar Ferrández, Rafael Muñoz, Manuel Palomar

2008

Abstract

This paper presents how text summarization can be influenced by textual entailment. We show that if we use textual entailment recognition together with text summarization approach, we achieve good results for final summaries, obtaining an improvement of 6.78% with respect to the summarization approach only. We also compare the performance of this combined approach to two base- lines (the one provided in DUC 2002 and ours based on word-frequency technique) and we discuss the preliminary results obtained in order to infer conclusions that can be useful for future research.

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Lloret E., Ferrández Ó., Muñoz R. and Palomar M. (2008). A Text Summarization Approach under the Influence of Textual Entailment.In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLPCS, (ICEIS 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-45-6, pages 22-31. DOI: 10.5220/0001732100220031


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@conference{nlpcs08,
author={Elena Lloret and Óscar Ferrández and Rafael Muñoz and Manuel Palomar},
title={A Text Summarization Approach under the Influence of Textual Entailment},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLPCS, (ICEIS 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={22-31},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001732100220031},
isbn={978-989-8111-45-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLPCS, (ICEIS 2008)
TI - A Text Summarization Approach under the Influence of Textual Entailment
SN - 978-989-8111-45-6
AU - Lloret E.
AU - Ferrández Ó.
AU - Muñoz R.
AU - Palomar M.
PY - 2008
SP - 22
EP - 31
DO - 10.5220/0001732100220031