Automatic text summarizing based on sentence extraction: A statistical approach

Issue title: Proceedings of the tenth International Symposium on Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics ISEM-Tokyo

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Cranganu-Cretu, Bogdan^{a; *} | Chen, Zhenmao^a | Uchimoto, Tetsuya^b | Miya, Kenzo^a

Affiliations: [a] International Institute of Universality IIU, 1-4-6 Nezu, Bunkyo-Ku, 113-0031 Tokyo, Japan | [b] Nuclear Engineering Research Laboratory, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki 319-1106, Japan

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Bogdan Cranganu-Cretu, E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract: The present work describes a system for automatic summarizing of texts. Rather than focusing on abstracts -- a hard NLP task of not asserted effectiveness the system produces extracts through selection of most important sentences in the original text. Statistical concepts are involved in order to evaluate the degree of significance of words, groups of words and sentences. Currently both Japanese and English texts can be treated. Procedures for computing importance, information content of sentences and measures of correlation between sentences are implemented. Comments are given on the feasibility of the approach and future developments.

DOI: 10.3233/JAE-2002-513

Journal: International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics, vol. 13, no. 1-4, pp. 19-23, 2002