Package dragon.ir.summarize

A package for generic multi-document summarization and its evaluation

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Description

Interface Summary

GenericMultiDocSummarizer	Interface of Generic Multi-Document Summarizer
StructureSummarizer	Interface of structural summarizer

Class Summary

AbstractSentenceSum	The class implement basic function of building summary given a sentence set.
AbstractStructureSum	Abstract class of structure summarization given a document set
ClusterLexRankSummarizer	An extension of LexRank text summarizer
LexRankSummarizer	LexRank Summerizer
RelationGenerativeSum	Generative relation based summarization
ROUGE	A Program for Summarizaiton Evaluation
SemanticRankSummarizer	Semantic based ranking summarizer which can supports differnt semantic similarity measure such as ontology based and model based.
TermGenerativeSum	Generative term based summarization
TextUnit	Data structure for text unit
TopicSummary	Data structure for topic summary

Package dragon.ir.summarize Description

A package for generic multi-document summarization and its evaluation

Package Specification

To develop a summarizer, one should implement the interface called GenericMultiDocSummarizer. The evalute the quality of the machine-generated summary, one can call the ROUGE program. The summarization often deals with a small number of documents. Thus, it is not required to index documents before summarization. The summarizer can index the documents online calling the online sentence indexer and then find out represenatitve sentences.