A multi-news timeline summarization algorithm based on aging theory

Jie Chen, Zhendong Niu, Hongping Fu

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Abstract

This paper focuses on the problem of news event timeline summary in Multi-Document Summarization, which aims to summarize multi-news regarding the same event in timeline. The majority of the traditional solutions to this problem consider the text surface features and topic-related features, such as the length of each sentence, the position of the sentence in the document, the number of topic words, etc. Traditional methods ignored that every event has its life circle including birth, growth, maturity and death. In this paper, a novel approach is presented for summarizing multi-news regarding the same topic in consideration of both the traditional features and the life circle feature of each event. The proposed approach consists of four steps. First, sentences and their publishing date are extracted from each news article. Second, the extracted sentences are pretreated to reduce the influence of noises like synonyms. Third, life circle features and other four categories of features which are common used in this field are collected. Finally, SVM model is used to train these features to recognize the summary sentence of the news document. This approach have been tested on the public datasets, DUC-2002 and TAC-2010, and the results show that our approach is more effective in summarizing multi-news in timeline than existing methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWeb Technologies and Applications - 17th Asia-PacificWeb Conference,APWeb 2015, Proceedings
EditorsReynold Cheng, Bin Cui, Zhenjie Zhang, Ruichu Cai, Jia Xu
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages449-460
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783319252544
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Event17th Asia-PacificWeb Conference, APWeb 2015 - Guangzhou, China
Duration: 18 Sept 201520 Sept 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9313
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference17th Asia-PacificWeb Conference, APWeb 2015
Country/TerritoryChina
CityGuangzhou
Period18/09/1520/09/15

Keywords

  • Aging theory
  • News event summarization
  • Timeline

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