Extractive Chinese spoken document summarization using probabilistic ranking models

Yi Ting Chen*, Suhan Yu, Hsin Min Wang, Berlin Chen

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Abstract

The purpose of extractive summarization is to automatically select indicative sentences, passages, or paragraphs from an original document according to a certain target summarization ratio, and then sequence them to form a concise summary. In this paper, in contrast to conventional approaches, our objective is to deal with the extractive summarization problem under a probabilistic modeling framework. We investigate the use of the hidden Markov model (HMM) for spoken document summarization, in which each sentence of a spoken document is treated as an HMM for generating the document, and the sentences are ranked and selected according to their likelihoods. In addition, the relevance model (RM) of each sentence, estimated from a contemporary text collection, is integrated with the HMM model to improve the representation of the sentence model. The experiments were performed on Chinese broadcast news compiled in Taiwan. The proposed approach achieves noticeable performance gains over conventional summarization approaches.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationChinese Spoken Language Processing - 5th International Symposium, ISCSLP 2006, Proceedings
Pages660-671
Number of pages12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006
Event5th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, ISCSLP 2006 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 2006 Dec 132006 Dec 16

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4274 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other5th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, ISCSLP 2006
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period2006/12/132006/12/16

Keywords

  • Hidden Markov model
  • Probabilistic ranking
  • Relevance model
  • Speech recognition
  • Spoken document summarization

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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