Increasing the Coherence of Spoken Dialogue Summaries by Cross-Speaker Information Linking
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This paper addresses the question of how to increase local coherence in summaries of multi-party conversations. Due to the interactive nature of dialogues, local regions of coherence often stretch across diierent speakers, as for instance in question-answer pairs. We present an approach to automatically detect those regions of local coherence and evaluate the resulting summaries' uency and informativeness. Our approach increases summary uency sig-niicantly while not compromising informative-ness.
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