Maximal Marginal Relevance Research Articles

Combined Features to Maximal Marginal Relevance Algorithm for Multi-document Summarization

Combined Features to Maximal Marginal Relevance Algorithm for Multi-document Summarization

Social speech summarization

This study proposes a method for automatically summarizing video speech transcripts by using social tags and the maximum marginal relevance (MMR) model. An extrinsic, experimental evaluation of the proposed method indicated that it outperformed the mechanical method in summary making tasks.

Long story short – Global unsupervised models for keyphrase based meeting summarization

We analyze and compare two different methods for unsupervised extractive spontaneous speech summarization in the meeting domain. Based on utterance comparison, we introduce an optimal formulation for the widely used greedy maximum marginal relevance (MMR) algorithm. Following the idea that information is spread over the utterances in form of concepts, we describe a system which finds an optimal selection of utterances covering as many unique important concepts as possible. Both optimization problems are formulated as an integer linear program (ILP) and solved using public domain software. We analyze and discuss the performance of both approaches using various evaluation setups on two well studied meeting corpora. We conclude on the benefits and drawbacks of the presented models and give an outlook on future aspects to improve extractive meeting summarization.

A Web Page Summarization for Mobile Phones

Recently, web pages for mobile devices are widely spread on the Internet and a lot of people can access web pages through search engines by mobile devices as well as personal computers. A summary of a retrieved web page is important because the people judge whether or not the page would be relevant to their information need according to the summary. In particular, the summary must be not only compact but also grammatical and meaningful when the users retrieve information using a mobile phone with a small screen. Most search engines seem to produce a snippet based on the keyword-in-context (KWIC) method. However, this simple method could not generate a refined summary suitable for mobile phones because of low grammaticality and content overlap with the page title. We propose a more suitable method to generate a snippet for mobile devices using sentence extraction and sentence compression methods. First, sentences are biased based on whether they include the query terms from the users or words that are relevant to the queries, as well as whether they do not overlap with the page title based on maximal marginal relevance (MMR). Second, the selected sentences are compressed based on their phrase coverage, which is measured by the scores of words, and their phrase connection probability measured based on the language model, according to the dependency structure converted from the sentence. The experimental results reveal the proposed method outperformed the KWIC method in terms of relevance judgment, grammaticality, non-redundancy and content coverage.

Document reranking by term distribution and maximal marginal relevance for chinese information retrieval

In this paper, we propose a document reranking method for Chinese information retrieval. The method is based on a term weighting scheme, which integrates local and global distribution of terms as well as document frequency, document positions and term length. The weight scheme allows randomly setting a larger portion of the retrieved documents as relevance feedback, and lifts off the worry that very fewer relevant documents appear in top retrieved documents. It also helps to improve the performance of maximal marginal relevance (MMR) in document reranking. The method was evaluated by MAP (mean average precision), a recall-oriented measure. Significance tests showed that our method can get significant improvement against standard baselines, and outperform relevant methods consistently.