Automatic Evaluation Of Summaries Using Document Graphs

نویسندگان

  • Eugene Santos Jr.
  • Ahmed A. Mohamed
  • Qunhua Zhao
چکیده

Summarization evaluation has been always a challenge to researchers in the document summarization field. Usually, human involvement is necessary to evaluate the quality of a summary. Here we present a new method for automatic evaluation of text summaries by using document graphs. Data from Document Understanding Conference 2002 (DUC-2002) has been used in the experiment. We propose measuring the similarity between two summaries or between a summary and a document based on the concepts/entities and relations between them in the text.

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تاریخ انتشار 2004