logo Idiap Research Institute        
 [BibTeX] [Marc21]
ClusterRank: A Graph Based Method for Meeting Summarization
Type of publication: Idiap-RR
Citation: Garg_Idiap-RR-09-2009
Number: Idiap-RR-09-2009
Year: 2009
Month: 6
Institution: Idiap
Address: P.O. Box 592, CH-1920 Martigny, Switzerland
Abstract: This paper presents an unsupervised, graph based approach for extractive summarization of meetings. Graph based methods such as TextRank have been used for sentence extraction from news articles. These methods model text as a graph with sentences as nodes and edges based on word overlap. A sentence node is then ranked according to its similarity with other nodes. The spontaneous speech in meetings leads to incomplete, illformed sentences with high redundancy and calls for additional measures to extract relevant sentences. We propose an extension of the TextRank algorithm that clusters the meeting utterances and uses these clusters to construct the graph. We evaluate this method on the AMI meeting corpus and show a significant improvement over TextRank and other baseline methods.
Keywords:
Projects IM2
Authors Garg, Nikhil
Favre, Benoit
Reidhammer, Korbinian
Hakkani Tür, Dilek
Added by: [ADM]
Total mark: 0
Attachments
  • Garg_Idiap-RR-09-2009.pdf (MD5: 67530af261888766ff96db194e18b9c6)
Notes