Revisiting the Centroid-based Method: A Strong Baseline for Multi-Document Summarization

Demian Gholipour Ghalandari


Abstract
The centroid-based model for extractive document summarization is a simple and fast baseline that ranks sentences based on their similarity to a centroid vector. In this paper, we apply this ranking to possible summaries instead of sentences and use a simple greedy algorithm to find the best summary. Furthermore, we show possibilities to scale up to larger input document collections by selecting a small number of sentences from each document prior to constructing the summary. Experiments were done on the DUC2004 dataset for multi-document summarization. We observe a higher performance over the original model, on par with more complex state-of-the-art methods.
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W17-4511
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Proceedings of the Workshop on New Frontiers in Summarization
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September
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2017
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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Lu Wang, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Giuseppe Carenini, Fei Liu
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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85–90
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https://aclanthology.org/W17-4511
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10.18653/v1/W17-4511
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Demian Gholipour Ghalandari. 2017. Revisiting the Centroid-based Method: A Strong Baseline for Multi-Document Summarization. In Proceedings of the Workshop on New Frontiers in Summarization, pages 85–90, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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