Rebecca Mason’s scientific contributions


Ad

What is this page?


This page lists works of an author who doesn't have a ResearchGate profile or hasn't added the works to their profile yet. It is automatically generated from public (personal) data to further our legitimate goal of comprehensive and accurate scientific recordkeeping. If you are this author and want this page removed, please let us know.

Publications (1)


Sentence Selection for Extractive Summaries in PARE
  • Article

9 Reads

·

2 Citations

Caleb Butterfield

·

Rebecca Mason

·

1. ABSTRACT As the amount of text available from electronic sources continues to increase, the study of automatic text summarization is more important now than it has ever been. Automatically generated summaries should be clear and concise without giving unimportant or redundant information. The process of extractive text summarization involves determining the most important sentences in a document and putting them together to make a summary. We have developed and tested methods for determining which sentences should be included in single-document summaries generated by PARE, an automatic text summarizer. Evaluation of our results using ROUGE, an automated system for comparing summaries, showed that summaries generated by our sentence selection method compare favorably to commercially available text summarizers. 2. PARE BACKGROUND

Ad

Citations (1)


... The main algorithm that has been used in this section is greedy algorithm together with applying NLP techniques for preprocessing the data that should be summarized. Butterfield, et al [20] described the main steps for the greedy algorithm which have been modified and extended to include the following: 1. Construct the first paragraph from combining sentences that are retrieved from multiple records EMR in the DB. 2. Apply Natural Language Pre-processing: a. Stopword Filtering. b. ...

Reference:

Intelligent Integration of Discharge Summary: A Formative Model
Sentence Selection for Extractive Summaries in PARE
  • Citing Article