Automatic Text Summarization - Znalosti 2008

Stages of human abstracting◦ Document exploration (Its scheme differs for genres of text)• Examines: Document title, outline, formatting, table of contents, structure,bibliography, beginning, … .◦ Relevance assessment (identifying relevant passages from the text’sbody)• Construction of theme (structured representation of what the text isabout)• Expansion of theme structureSummary production (applies cutting and pasting to thedocument)◦ Closely follows the original and reintegrates the most importantpoints.◦ Heavy use of cue phrasesStrategies of human abstracting◦ Use the structural organization in top down strategy (examineparagraphs before sentences).◦ Never read the text from start to finish.Automatic Text Summarization: Ježek and Steinberger, Znalosti 2008, Bratislava12