Extractive Summarisation, like other areas in Natural Language Processing, has succumbed to the general trend marked by the success of neural approaches. However, the required resources—computational, temporal, data—are not always available. We present an experimental study of a method based on statistical techniques that, exploiting the semantic information from the source and its structure, provides competitive results against the state of the art. We propose a Discourse-Informed approach for Cost-effective Extractive Summarisation (DICES). DICES is an unsupervised, lightweight and adaptable framework that requires neither training data nor high-performance computing resources to achieve promising results.
Conference: XXXVI Annual Congress of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing
Authors: Marta Vicente y Elena Lloret
To be held on: September 2020