Automated Text Summarization using MEAD: Experience with the IMF Staff Reports
Lecture slides:
- Text Summarization
- MEAD
- Sentence Extraction Methods in MEAD
- Re-rankers
- MEAD Graphical User Interface
- Some Experience with Summarizing IMF Staff Reports using MEAD
- IMF Staff Reports
- Summary Evaluation Methods Used
- Experiment 1: IDF Dictionary
- Four IDF Dictionaries
- Results
- Experiment 2: Random method
- Experiment 2: Overlap
- Experiment 2: LSA
- Experiment 3: Re-ranker
- Experiment 3: Overlap
- Experiment 3: LSA
- Experiment 4: Paragraph lead-based
- Experiment 4: Overlap
- Summary of the Results and Insights
- How to Improve the MEAD Outputs?
Author: Shuhua Liu, Åbo Akademi University