Bringing Structure into Summaries: Crowdsourcing a Benchmark Corpus of Concept Maps

Tobias Falke, Iryna Gurevych


Abstract
Concept maps can be used to concisely represent important information and bring structure into large document collections. Therefore, we study a variant of multi-document summarization that produces summaries in the form of concept maps. However, suitable evaluation datasets for this task are currently missing. To close this gap, we present a newly created corpus of concept maps that summarize heterogeneous collections of web documents on educational topics. It was created using a novel crowdsourcing approach that allows us to efficiently determine important elements in large document collections. We release the corpus along with a baseline system and proposed evaluation protocol to enable further research on this variant of summarization.
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D17-1320
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Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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September
Year:
2017
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Copenhagen, Denmark
Editors:
Martha Palmer, Rebecca Hwa, Sebastian Riedel
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
2951–2961
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/D17-1320
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D17-1320
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Tobias Falke and Iryna Gurevych. 2017. Bringing Structure into Summaries: Crowdsourcing a Benchmark Corpus of Concept Maps. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 2951–2961, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Bringing Structure into Summaries: Crowdsourcing a Benchmark Corpus of Concept Maps (Falke & Gurevych, EMNLP 2017)
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https://aclanthology.org/D17-1320.pdf
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 UKPLab/emnlp2017-cmapsum-corpus