An approach for query-focused text summarisation for evidence based medicine

Abeed Sarker; Diego Mollá; Cécile Paris

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-38326-7_41

An approach for query-focused text summarisation for evidence based medicine

Abeed Sarker, Diego Mollá, Cécile Paris

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Abstract

We present an approach for extractive, query-focused, single-document summarisation of medical text. Our approach utilises a combination of target-sentence-specific and target-sentence-independent statistics derived from a corpus specialised for summarisation in the medical domain. We incorporate domain knowledge via the application of multiple domain-specific features, and we customise the answer extraction process for different question types. The use of carefully selected domain-specific features enables our summariser to generate content-rich extractive summaries, and an automatic evaluation of our system reveals that it outperforms other baseline and benchmark summarisation systems with a percentile rank of 96.8%.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - 14th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2013, Proceedings
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	295-304
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9783642383250
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38326-7_41
Publication status	Published - 2013
Externally published	Yes
Event	14th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2013 - Murcia, Spain Duration: 29 May 2013 → 1 Jun 2013

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	7885 LNAI
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	14th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2013
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Murcia
Period	29/05/13 → 1/06/13

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Sarker, A., Mollá, D., & Paris, C. (2013). An approach for query-focused text summarisation for evidence based medicine. In Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - 14th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2013, Proceedings (pp. 295-304). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 7885 LNAI). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38326-7_41

Sarker, Abeed ; Mollá, Diego ; Paris, Cécile. / An approach for query-focused text summarisation for evidence based medicine. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - 14th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2013, Proceedings. Springer Verlag, 2013. pp. 295-304 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Sarker, A, Mollá, D & Paris, C 2013, An approach for query-focused text summarisation for evidence based medicine. in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - 14th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2013, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 7885 LNAI, Springer Verlag, pp. 295-304, 14th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2013, Murcia, Spain, 29/05/13. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38326-7_41

An approach for query-focused text summarisation for evidence based medicine. / Sarker, Abeed; Mollá, Diego; Paris, Cécile.
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - 14th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2013, Proceedings. Springer Verlag, 2013. p. 295-304 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 7885 LNAI).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Sarker A, Mollá D, Paris C. An approach for query-focused text summarisation for evidence based medicine. In Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - 14th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2013, Proceedings. Springer Verlag. 2013. p. 295-304. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-38326-7_41

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