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2006 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Impact of Document Structure on Hierarchical Summarization
Authors : Fu Lee Wang, Christopher C. Yang
Published in: Digital Libraries: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Hierarchical summarization technique summarizes a large document based on the hierarchical structure and salient features of the document. Previous study has shown that hierarchical summarization is a promising technique which can effectively extract the most important information from the source document. Hierarchical summarization has been extended to summarization of multiple documents. Three hierarchical structures were proposed to organize a set of related documents. This paper investigates the impact of document structure on hierarchical summarization. The results show that the hierarchical summarization of multiple documents organized in hierarchical structure outperforms other multi-document summarization systems without using the hierarchical structure. Moreover, the hierarchical summarization by event topics extracts a set of sentences significantly different from hierarchical summarization of other hierarchical structures and performs the best when the summary is highly-compressed.