Identifying Multidocument Relations

Erick Galani Maziero, Maria Lucía del Rosario Castro Jorge, Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo

2010

Abstract

The digital world generates an incredible accumulation of information. This results in redundant, complementary, and contradictory information, which may be produced by several sources. Applications as multidocument summarization and question answering are committed to handling this information and require the identification of relations among the various texts in order to accomplish their tasks. In this paper we first describe an effort to create and annotate a corpus of news texts with multidocument relations from the Cross-document Structure Theory (CST) and then present a machine learning experiment for the automatic identification of some of these relations. We show that our results for both tasks are satisfactory.

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Galani Maziero E., del Rosario Castro Jorge M. and Salgueiro Pardo T. (2010). Identifying Multidocument Relations . In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLPCS, (ICEIS 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-13-3, pages 60-69. DOI: 10.5220/0003028800600069


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@conference{nlpcs10,
author={Erick Galani Maziero and Maria Lucía del Rosario Castro Jorge and Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo},
title={Identifying Multidocument Relations},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLPCS, (ICEIS 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={60-69},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003028800600069},
isbn={978-989-8425-13-3},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLPCS, (ICEIS 2010)
TI - Identifying Multidocument Relations
SN - 978-989-8425-13-3
AU - Galani Maziero E.
AU - del Rosario Castro Jorge M.
AU - Salgueiro Pardo T.
PY - 2010
SP - 60
EP - 69
DO - 10.5220/0003028800600069