Improving the Estimation of Word Importance for News Multi-Document Summarization

Kai Hong, Ani Nenkova
2014 Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics  
We introduce a supervised model for predicting word importance that incorporates a rich set of features. Our model is superior to prior approaches for identifying words used in human summaries. Moreover we show that an extractive summarizer using these estimates of word importance is comparable in automatic evaluation with the state-of-the-art.
doi:10.3115/v1/e14-1075 dblp:conf/eacl/HongN14 fatcat:rvqf25zx6rbmfdxsbx4htut3fa