Sentence Extraction and Rhetorical Classiication for Exible Abstracts

Argumentative Classiication of Extracted Sentences as a Rst Step towards Exible Abstracting

Knowledge about the rhetorical structure of a text is useful for automatic abstraction. We are interested in the automatic extraction of rhetorical units from the source text, units such as Problem Statement, Conclusions and Results. We want to use such extracts to generate high-compression abstracts of scientiic articles. In this paper, we present an extension of Kupiec, Pedersen and Chen's (1...

Sentence Extraction and Rhetorical Classification for Flexible Abstracts

Identifying Sections in Scientific Abstracts using Conditional Random Fields

OBJECTIVE: The prior knowledge about the rhetorical structure of scientific abstracts is useful for various text-mining tasks such as information extraction, information retrieval, and automatic summarization. This paper presents a novel approach to categorize sentences in scientific abstracts into four sections, objective, methods, results, and conclusions. METHOD: Formalizing the categorizati...

Sentence extraction and rhetorical classification for flexible abstracts

Knowledge about he discourse-level structure of a scientific article isuseful for flexible and sub-domain independent automatic abstraction. We are interested in the automatic identification of content units ("argumentative entities") in the source text, such as GOAL OR PROBLEM STATEMENT, CONCLUSIONS and RESULTS. In this paper, we present an extension fKupiec et al.’s methodology fortrainable s...

A Rhetorical Move Analysis of TEFL Thesis Abstracts: The Case of Allameh Tabataba’i University

Abstract in every research paper has always been functioning as an attention-grabber which can encourage readers to keep reading the research or to dissuade it. Although abstracts are believed to play an important role in distributing the research findings, few studies have been done to evaluate the rhetorical organization of thesis abstracts, especially in the field of Teaching English as a Fo...