Language models for hierarchical summarization

Hierarchies have long been used for organization, summarization, and access to information. In this dissertation we define summarization in terms of a probabilistic language model and use this definition to explore a new technique for automatically generating topic hierarchies. We use the language m...

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Main Author: Lawrie, Dawn J
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2003
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3110516