A method for improving the generation of linguistic summaries

Abstract

Generation of linguistic summaries that are compact, short and relevant to the user remains an open challenge. In this paper, we propose a novel method for improving the generation of linguistic summaries inspired by the a-priori algorithm and the degree of appropriateness. The method generates all true summaries with related predicates in the summarizer, resulting in a small set of linguistic summaries, whose presentation to the user is compact. We tested our method on three real world data sets. The results indicate that our proposed approach is a good alternative to previous methods suggested for generating linguistic summaries.