An Introduction to the Summarization of Evolving Events: Linear and Non-linear Evolution

Stergos D. Afantenos, Konstantina Liontou, Maria Salapata, Vangelis Karkaletsis

2005

Abstract

This paper examines the summarization of events that evolve through time. It discusses different types of evolution taking into account the time in which the incidents of an event are happening and the different sources reporting on the specific event. It proposes an approach for multi-document summarization which employs “messages” for representing the incidents of an event and cross-document relations that hold between messages according to certain conditions. The paper also outlines the current version of the summarization system we are implementing to realize this approach.

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D. Afantenos S., Liontou K., Salapata M. and Karkaletsis V. (2005). An Introduction to the Summarization of Evolving Events: Linear and Non-linear Evolution . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLUCS, (ICEIS 2005) ISBN 972-8865-23-6X, pages 91-99. DOI: 10.5220/0002564200910099


in Bibtex Style

@conference{nlucs05,
author={Stergos D. Afantenos and Konstantina Liontou and Maria Salapata and Vangelis Karkaletsis},
title={An Introduction to the Summarization of Evolving Events: Linear and Non-linear Evolution},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLUCS, (ICEIS 2005)},
year={2005},
pages={91-99},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002564200910099},
isbn={972-8865-23-6X},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLUCS, (ICEIS 2005)
TI - An Introduction to the Summarization of Evolving Events: Linear and Non-linear Evolution
SN - 972-8865-23-6X
AU - D. Afantenos S.
AU - Liontou K.
AU - Salapata M.
AU - Karkaletsis V.
PY - 2005
SP - 91
EP - 99
DO - 10.5220/0002564200910099