Exploiting Rhetorical Relations in Blog Summarization
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Exploiting Rhetorical Relations in Blog Summarization Shamima Mithun, Ph.D. Concordia University, 2012 With the rapid growth of the Social Web, a large amount of informal opinionated texts are available on numerous topics. Natural language tools for automatically analyzing these opinions become necessary to help individuals, organizations, and governments in making timely decisions. A query-based opinion summarizer from opinionated documents can address this need. Query-based opinion summarizers present what people think or feel on a given topic in a condensed manner to analyze others’ opinions regarding a specific question (e.g. Why do people like Chrome better than Firefox? ). This research interest motivated us to develop an effective query-based extractive multi-document opinion summarization
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تاریخ انتشار 2010