Automatic summarisation: 25 years On

Automatic Voicemail Summarisation for Mobile Messaging

One way to overcome the display and bandwidth limitations of today’s mobile environments is to reduce the amount of data transmitted to end-users by selecting only principal content, at the cost of introducing a tolerable information loss. This thesis provides a framework that allows systematic comparisons and integration of patterns present in voicemail messages for constructing summaries suit...

Marr's vision: 25 years on

A review at the time of publication predicted that "Even if no single one of Marr's detailed hypotheses ultimately survives...[his] lifework will have been vindicated when neuroscientists cannot understand how it was ever possible to doubt the validity of his theoretical maxims." 25 years on, most would agree that Marr's recipe for investigating human vision and, in particular, his strategy of ...

Bulimia nervosa: 25 years on.

Investigating sentence weighting components for automatic summarisation

The work described here initially formed part of a triangulation exercise to establish the effectiveness of the Query Term Order algorithm. The methodology produced subsequently proved to be a reliable indicator of quality for summarising English web documents. We utilised the human summaries from the Document Understanding Conference data, and generated queries automatically for testing the QT...

Building annotated resources for automatic text summarisation

Annotated corpora are necessary for automatic summarisation, but given how difficult is to produce them there are only few available. This paper presents an annotation tool which helps the human annotator to select the important units from a text. In addition to the tool, a new annotation scheme is proposed so that phenomena which such as presence of anaphoric expressions and redundancy can be ...