Polytope Model for Extractive Summarization

Marina Litvak, Natalia Vanetik

2012

Abstract

The problem of text summarization for a collection of documents is defined as the problem of selecting a small subset of sentences so that the contents and meaning of the original document set are preserved in the best possible way. In this paper we present a linear model for the problem of text summarization, where we strive to obtain a summary that preserves the information coverage as much as possible in comparison to the original document set. We construct a system of linear inequalities that describes the given document set and its possible summaries and translate the problem of finding the best summary to the problem of finding the point on a convex polytope closest to the given hyperplane. This re-formulated problem can be solved efficiently with the help of quadratic programming.

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Litvak M. and Vanetik N. (2012). Polytope Model for Extractive Summarization . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-29-7, pages 281-286. DOI: 10.5220/0004170902810286


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@conference{kdir12,
author={Marina Litvak and Natalia Vanetik},
title={Polytope Model for Extractive Summarization},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={281-286},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004170902810286},
isbn={978-989-8565-29-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2012)
TI - Polytope Model for Extractive Summarization
SN - 978-989-8565-29-7
AU - Litvak M.
AU - Vanetik N.
PY - 2012
SP - 281
EP - 286
DO - 10.5220/0004170902810286