From text summarisation to style-specific summarisation for broadcast news
Advances in Information Retrieval: 26th European Conference on IR Research …, 2004•Springer
In this paper we report on a series of experiments investigating the path from text-
summarisation to style-specific summarisation of spoken news stories. We show that the
portability of traditional text summarisation features to broadcast news is dependent on the
diffusiveness of the information in the broadcast news story. An analysis of two categories of
news stories (containing only read speech or some spontaneous speech) demonstrates the
importance of the style and the quality of the transcript, when extracting the summary-worthy …
summarisation to style-specific summarisation of spoken news stories. We show that the
portability of traditional text summarisation features to broadcast news is dependent on the
diffusiveness of the information in the broadcast news story. An analysis of two categories of
news stories (containing only read speech or some spontaneous speech) demonstrates the
importance of the style and the quality of the transcript, when extracting the summary-worthy …
Abstract
In this paper we report on a series of experiments investigating the path from text-summarisation to style-specific summarisation of spoken news stories. We show that the portability of traditional text summarisation features to broadcast news is dependent on the diffusiveness of the information in the broadcast news story. An analysis of two categories of news stories (containing only read speech or some spontaneous speech) demonstrates the importance of the style and the quality of the transcript, when extracting the summary-worthy information content. Further experiments indicate the advantages of doing style-specific summarisation of broadcast news.
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