Abstract
We describe a set of experiments using machine learning techniques for the task of extractive summarisation. The research is part of a summarisation project for which we use a corpus of judgments of the UK House of Lords. We present classification results for naïve Bayes and maximum entropy and we explore methods for scoring the summary-worthiness of a sentence. We present sample output from the system, illustrating the utility of rhetorical status information, which provides a means for structuring summaries and tailoring them to different types of users.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Tenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, Proceedings of the Conference, June 6-11, 2005, Bologna, Italy |
Publisher | ACM |
Pages | 75-84 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Print) | 1-59593-081-7 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2005 |