Information/Sentence Extraction

Sentence Extraction: - learn an extraction function that identifies sentences

containing information essential to the summary.

METHOD: Abstract decomposition

CASE: Single-document summaries:

- based on HMMs to assign probabilities and the Viterbi algorithm

to decide the positions (Sentence, Word-in-Sentence)

(Jing & McKeown SIGIR�99)

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