Using tweets to help sentence compression for news highlights generation

We explore using relevant tweets of a given news article to help sentence compression for generating compressive news highlights. We extend an unsupervised dependency-tree based sentence compression approach by incorporating tweet information to weight the tree edge in terms of informativeness and s...

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Main Authors: WEI, Zhongyu, LIU, Yang, LI, Chen, GAO, Wei
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4575
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5578/viewcontent/P15_2009.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English
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Summary:We explore using relevant tweets of a given news article to help sentence compression for generating compressive news highlights. We extend an unsupervised dependency-tree based sentence compression approach by incorporating tweet information to weight the tree edge in terms of informativeness and syntactic importance. The experimental results on a public corpus that contains both news articles and relevant tweets show that our proposed tweets guided sentence compression method can improve the summarization performance significantly compared to the baseline generic sentence compression method.