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Back Ronzano F, Saggion H. An Empirical Assessment of Citation Information in Scientific Summarization. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2016), 22-24 June 2016, Manchester, UK

Ronzano F, Saggion H. An Empirical Assessment of Citation Information in Scientific Summarization. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2016), 22-24 June 2016, Manchester, UK

 

Considering the recent substantial growth of the publication rate of scientific results, nowadays the availability of effective and automated techniques to summarize scientific articles is of utmost importance. In this paper we investigate if and how we can exploit the citations of an article in order to better identify its relevant excerpts. By relying on the BioSumm2014 dataset, we evaluate the variation in performance of extractive summarization approaches when we consider the citations to extend or select the contents of an article to summarize. We compute the maximum ROUGE-2 scores that can be obtained when we summarize a paper by considering its contents together with its citations. We show that the inclusion of citation-related information brings to the generation of better summaries. 

 

Keywords: citation-based summarization, scientific text mining, summary evaluation

Additional material:

- Dataset TAC2014 Biomedical Summarization Data, from the Biomedical Summarization Track, Text Analysis Conference 2014