A new sentence similarity measure and sentence based extractive technique for automatic text summarization

The technology of automatic document summarization is maturing and may provide a solution to the information overload problem. Nowadays, document summarization plays an important role in information retrieval. With a large volume of documents, presenting the user with a summary of each document greatly facilitates the task of finding the desired documents. Document summarization is a process of automatically creating a compressed version of a given document that provides useful information to users, and multi-document summarization is to produce a summary delivering the majority of information content from a set of documents about an explicit or implicit main topic. In our study we focus on sentence based extractive document summarization. We propose the generic document summarization method which is based on sentence clustering. The proposed approach is a continue sentence-clustering based extractive summarization methods, proposed in Alguliev [Alguliev, R. M., Aliguliyev, R. M., Bagirov, A. M. (2005). Global optimization in the summarization of text documents. Automatic Control and Computer Sciences 39, 42–47], Aliguliyev [Aliguliyev, R. M. (2006). A novel partitioning-based clustering method and generic document summarization. In Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on web intelligence and intelligent agent technology (WI–IAT 2006 Workshops) (WI–IATW’06), 18–22 December (pp. 626–629) Hong Kong, China], Alguliev and Alyguliev [Alguliev, R. M., Alyguliev, R. M. (2007). Summarization of text-based documents with a determination of latent topical sections and information-rich sentences. Automatic Control and Computer Sciences 41, 132–140] Aliguliyev, [Aliguliyev, R. M. (2007). Automatic document summarization by sentence extraction. Journal of Computational Technologies 12, 5–15.]. The purpose of present paper to show, that summarization result not only depends on optimized function, and also depends on a similarity measure. The experimental results on an open benchmark datasets from DUC01 and DUC02 show that our proposed approach can improve the performance compared to sate-of-the-art summarization approaches. 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.