An Adaptive Semantic Descriptive Model for Multi-Document Representation to Enhance Generic Summarization

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Due to the increasing accessibility of online data and the availability of thousands of documents on the Internet, it becomes very difficult for a human to review and analyze each document manually. The sheer size of such documents and data presents a significant challenge for users. Providing automatic summaries of specific topics helps the users to overcome this problem. Most of the current extractive multi-document summarization systems can successfully extract summary sentences; however, many limitations exist which include the degree of redundancy, inaccurate extraction of important sentences, low coverage and poor coherence among the selected sentences. This paper introduces an adaptive extractive multi-document generic (EMDG) methodology for automatic text summarization. The framework of this methodology relies on a novel approach for sentence similarity measure, a discriminative sentence selection method for sentence scoring and a reordering technique for the extracted sentences after removing the redundant ones. Extensive experiments are done on the summarization benchmark datasets DUC2005, DUC2006 and DUC2007. This proves that the proposed EMDG methodology is more effective than the current extractive multi-document summarization systems. Rouge evaluation for automatic summarization is used to validate the proposed EMDG methodology, and the experimental results showed that it is more effective and outperforms the baseline techniques, where the generated summary is characterized by high coverage and cohesion.