2017 EMNLP EMNLP 2017

Towards Automatic Construction of News Overview Articles by News Synthesis

Abstract

AbstractIn this paper we investigate a new task of automatically constructing an overview article from a given set of news articles about a news event. We propose a news synthesis approach to address this task based on passage segmentation, ranking, selection and merging. Our proposed approach is compared with several typical multi-document summarization methods on the Wikinews dataset, and achieves the best performance on both automatic evaluation and manual evaluation.

🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge — Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing
📈 Trend Setter — Document Analysis
🧭 Keyword Pioneer — passage ranking
🐝 Cross-Pollinator — Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Data Science & Analytics, Deep Learning, Healthcare & Medicine, Interdisciplinary, Knowledge & Reasoning, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Speech & Audio