Summarizing a multimodal set of documents in a Smart Room

Maria Fuentes, Horacio Rodríguez, Jordi Turmo


Abstract
This article reports an intrinsic automatic summarization evaluation in the scientific lecture domain. The lecture takes place in a Smart Room that has access to different types of documents produced from different media. An evaluation framework is presented to analyze the performance of systems producing summaries answering a user need. Several ROUGE metrics are used and a manual content responsiveness evaluation was carried out in order to analyze the performance of the evaluated approaches. Various multilingual summarization approaches are analyzed showing that the use of different types of documents outperforms the use of transcripts. In fact, not using any part of the spontaneous speech transcription in the summary improves the performance of automatic summaries. Moreover, the use of semantic information represented in the different textual documents coming from different media helps to improve summary quality.
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L12-1524
Volume:
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
Month:
May
Year:
2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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2553–2558
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/882_Paper.pdf
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Maria Fuentes, Horacio Rodríguez, and Jordi Turmo. 2012. Summarizing a multimodal set of documents in a Smart Room. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 2553–2558, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Summarizing a multimodal set of documents in a Smart Room (Fuentes et al., LREC 2012)
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