In a disaster situation, first responders need to quickly acquire situational awareness and prioritize response based on the need, resources available and impact. Can they do this based on digital media such as Twitter alone, or newswire alone, or some combination of the two? We examine this question in the context of the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes. Because newswire articles are longer, effective summaries can be helpful in saving time yet giving key content. We evaluate the effectiveness of several unsupervised summarization techniques in capturing key content. We propose a method to link tweets written by the public and newswire articles, so that we can compare their key characteristics: timeliness, whether tweets appear earlier than their corresponding news articles, and content. A novel idea is to view relevant tweets as a summary of the matching news article and evaluate these summaries. Whenever possible, we present both quantitative and qualitative evaluations. One of our main findings is that tweets and newswire articles provide complementary perspectives that form a holistic view of the disaster situation.
@cite_21 , researchers proposed two methods that leverage tweets for ranking sentences in news articles for summarization: a voting method based on tweet hit counts of sentences, and a random walk on a heterogeneous graph (HGRW) consisting of tweets and news article sentences as nodes and the edge weights are defined by weighted idf-modified-cosine scores. The best ROUGE-1 F-score @cite_6 is achieved by a version of HGRW that outputs both sentences from news articles and tweets in the summary, where the summary consists of top four sentences tweets as highlights of the article.
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Single-document summarization is a challenging task. In this paper, we explore effective ways using the tweets linking to news for generating extractive summary of each document. We reveal the very basic value of tweets that can be utilized by regarding every tweet as a vote for candidate sentences. Base on such finding, we resort to unsupervised summarization models by leveraging the linking tweets to master the ranking of candidate extracts via random walk on a heterogeneous graph. The advantage is that we can use the linking tweets to opportunistically "supervise" the summarization with no need of reference summaries. Furthermore, we analyze the influence of the volume and latency of tweets on the quality of output summaries since tweets come after news release. Compared to truly supervised summarizer unaware of tweets, our method achieves significantly better results with reasonably small tradeoff on latency; compared to the same using tweets as auxiliary features, our method is comparable while needing less tweets and much shorter time to achieve significant outperformance. We propose a graph-based method for extractive single-document summarization which considers importance, non-redundancy and local coherence simultaneously. We represent input documents by means of a bipartite graph consisting of sentence and entity nodes. We rank sentences on the basis of importance by applying a graph-based ranking algorithm to this graph and ensure nonredundancy and local coherence of the summary by means of an optimization step. Our graph based method is applied to scientific articles from the journal PLOS Medicine. We use human judgements to evaluate the coherence of our summaries. We compare ROUGE scores and human judgements for coherence of different systems on scientific articles. Our method performs considerably better than other systems on this data. Also, our graph-based summarization technique achieves state-of-the-art results on DUC 2002 data. Incorporating our local coherence measure always achieves the best results. The development of online news media grew in number in Indonesia. One technique of news articles summarization is guided summarization where the summary should contain important aspect information. Guided summarization techniques have been developed in the Text Analysis Conference (TAC) 2011 and one of the best methods is SWING by Jun-ping, et al The purpose of this study is to adapt the methods of SWING system to Indonesian news articles as well as integrating with News Aggregator system. In this research, the experiments have purpose to determine the best features and system configuration when adapted to Indonesian news articles. ROUGE-2 and ROUGE-SU4 is used to evaluate the results of the summary where a summary of the system results compared to the human-made summaries. The best system configuration produces summary with evaluation of ROUGE-2 0,31 and ROUGE-SU4 0,22 which is very close to the human-made summaries with a value of ROUGE-2 0,32 and ROUGE-SU4 0.24. In addition, the update summarization component can be run by giving a summary of updates without repeating the information. Adaptation from SWING system to Indonesian news articles is employing features such as sentence length (SL), category relevance score (CRS), category KL-Divergence (CKLD), bigram DFS (BDFS), Top n NE corpus, Top n NE topic, quote sentence removal, and building SVR model for each news category. We present an approach for extractive single-document summarization. Our approach is based on a weighted graphical representation of documents obtained by topic modeling. We optimize importance, coherence and non-redundancy simultaneously using ILP. We compare ROUGE scores of our system with state-of-the-art results on scientific articles from PLOS Medicine and on DUC 2002 data. Human judges evaluate the coherence of summaries generated by our system in comparision to two baselines. Our approach obtains competitive performance.