Generating and Validating Abstracts of Meeting Conversations: a User Study

Abstracts, The 13th Annual General Meeting of ARCCNM, Osaka, Japan

The impact of ASR on abstractive vs. extractive meeting summaries

In this paper we describe a complete abstractive summarizer for meeting conversations, and evaluate the usefulness of the automatically generated abstracts in a browsing task. We contrast these abstracts with extracts for use in a meeting browser and investigate the effects of manual versus ASR transcripts on both summary types.

Automatic argumentative analysis for interaction mining

ive summarisation is a more appropriate technique for conversational content.The problem of abstractive summarisation of conversations is apparently much harder to solve than its extractive version. It requires almost the full understanding of the source data. Moreover, as also recognised by Murray, Carenini and Ng (2010), in order to perform the generation of an abstractive summary of meetings...

Taking a thermodynamic approach: A conversation with Baron Chanda

This issue of The Journal of General Physiology includes the Abstracts for the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society of General Physiologists, scheduled to take place September 2–6 in Woods Hole. We’ve been publishing the Abstracts for the SGP Annual Meeting since 1996, which was also the first year the SGP presented the Paul F. Cranefield Award, created to honor long-time JGP Editor Paul Cranefie...

A Template-based Abstractive Meeting Summarization: Leveraging Summary and Source Text Relationships

In this paper, we present an automatic abstractive summarization system of meeting conversations. Our system extends a novel multi-sentence fusion algorithm in order to generate abstract templates. It also leverages the relationship between summaries and their source meeting transcripts to select the best templates for generating abstractive summaries of meetings. Our manual and automatic evalu...