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Summarizing Scientific Texts: Experiments with Extractive Summarizers

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P. B. Filho, T. Pardo, M. G. V. Nunes
Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2007)

This paper enhances the summarization process with the ability to detect and appropriately treat the text structure and produces a shorter version containing all the main parts of the research.

Abstract

In this paper we present experiments on scientific text summarization. From a complete text, we produce a shorter version containing all the main parts of the research. Having in mind the sophisticated structure of such texts, we show that good results can be achieved using simple extractive summarizers with some obvious improvements that consider the specificity of the text genre. Specifically, we enhance the summarization process with the ability to detect and appropriately treat the text structure.