{"title":"A Common Theory of Information Fusion from Multiple Text Sources Step One: Cross-Document Structure","authors":"Dragomir R. Radev","doi":"10.3115/1117736.1117745","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We introduce CST (cross-document structure theory), a paradigm for multi-document analysis. CST takes into account the rhetorical structure of clusters of related textual documents. We present a taxonomy of cross-document relationships. We argue that CST can be the basis for multi-document summarization guided by user preferences for summary length, information provenance, cross-source agreement, and chronological ordering of facts.","PeriodicalId":426429,"journal":{"name":"SIGDIAL Workshop","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2000-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"241","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"SIGDIAL Workshop","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3115/1117736.1117745","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We introduce CST (cross-document structure theory), a paradigm for multi-document analysis. CST takes into account the rhetorical structure of clusters of related textual documents. We present a taxonomy of cross-document relationships. We argue that CST can be the basis for multi-document summarization guided by user preferences for summary length, information provenance, cross-source agreement, and chronological ordering of facts.