Personalized Extractive Summarization with Discourse Structure Constraints Towards Efficient and Coherent Dialog-Based News Delivery

Hiroaki Takatsu*, Ryota Ando, Hiroshi Honda, Yoichi Matsuyama, Tetsunori Kobayashi

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a method to generate a personalized summary that may be of interest to each user based on the discourse structure of documents in order to deliver a certain amount of coherent and interesting information within a limited time, primarily via a spoken dialog form. We initially constructed a news article corpus with annotations of the discourse structure, users’ profiles, and interests in sentences and topics. The proposed summarization model solves an integer linear programming problem with the discourse structure of each document and the total utterance time as constraints and extracts sentences that maximize the sum of the estimated degree of user’s interest. The degree of interest in a sentence is estimated based on the user’s profile obtained from a questionnaire and the word embeddings of BERT. Experiments confirm that the personalized summaries generated by the proposed method transmit information more efficiently than generic summaries generated based solely on the importance of sentences.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationConversational AI for Natural Human-Centric Interaction - 12th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology, IWSDS 2021
EditorsSvetlana Stoyanchev, Stefan Ultes, Haizhou Li
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages49-66
Number of pages18
ISBN (Print)9789811955372
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event12th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology, IWSDS 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 2021 Nov 152021 Nov 17

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
Volume943
ISSN (Print)1876-1100
ISSN (Electronic)1876-1119

Conference

Conference12th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology, IWSDS 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period21/11/1521/11/17

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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