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| Title: | IMPROVED DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION AND TAG CLOUDS VIA SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION |
| Authors: | Provost, JAMES |
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| Keywords: | automated summarization
singular value decomposition
tag clouds
summaries |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | Canadian theses |
| Abstract: | Automated summarization is a difficult task. World-class summarizers can provide only "best guesses" of which sentences encapsulate the important content from within a set of documents. As automated systems continue to improve, users are still not given the means to observe complex relationships between seemingly independent concepts. In this research we used singular value decompositions to organize concepts and determine the best candidate sentences for an automated summary. The results from this straightforward attempt were comparable to world-class summarizers. We then included a clustered tag cloud, using a singular value decomposition to measure term "interestingness" with respect to the set of documents. The combination of best candidate sentences and tag clouds provided a more inclusive summary than a traditionally-developed summarizer alone. |
| Description: | Thesis (Master, Computing) -- Queen's University, 2008-09-24 16:31:25.261 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1476 |
| Appears in Collections: | Queen's Theses & Dissertations
Computing Graduate Theses
Economics Graduate Theses
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