Shamima Mithun


2013

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Measuring the Effect of Discourse Relations on Blog Summarization
Shamima Mithun | Leila Kosseim
Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing

2012

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Discrepancy Between Automatic and Manual Evaluation of Summaries
Shamima Mithun | Leila Kosseim | Prasad Perera
Proceedings of Workshop on Evaluation Metrics and System Comparison for Automatic Summarization

2011

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Discourse Structures to Reduce Discourse Incoherence in Blog Summarization
Shamima Mithun | Leila Kosseim
Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2011

2010

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A Hybrid Approach to Utilize Rhetorical Relations for Blog Summarization
Shamima Mithun | Leila Kosseim
Actes de la 17e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Articles longs

The availability of huge amounts of online opinions has created a new need to develop effective query-based opinion summarizers to analyze this information in order to facilitate decision making at every level. To develop an effective opinion summarization approach, we have targeted to resolve specifically Question Irrelevancy and Discourse Incoherency problems which have been found to be the most frequently occurring problems for opinion summarization. To address these problems, we have introduced a hybrid approach by combining text schema and rhetorical relations to exploit intra-sentential rhetorical relations. To evaluate our approach, we have built a system called BlogSum and have compared BlogSum-generated summaries after applying rhetorical structuring to BlogSum-generated candidate sentences without utilizing rhetorical relations using the Text Analysis Conference (TAC) 2008 data for summary contents. Evaluation results show that our approach improves summary contents by reducing question irrelevant sentences.

2009

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Summarizing Blog Entries versus News Texts
Shamima Mithun | Leila Kosseim
Proceedings of the Workshop on Events in Emerging Text Types