An Automated Summarization Assessment Algorithm for Identifying Summarizing Strategies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Summarization is a process to select important information from a source text. Summarizing strategies are the core cognitive processes in summarization activity. Since summarization can be important as a tool to improve comprehension, it has attracted interest of teachers for teaching summary writing through direct instruction. To do this, they need to review and assess the students' summaries and these tasks are very time-consuming. Thus, a computer-assisted assessment can be used to help teachers to conduct this task more effectively.

Design/results

This paper aims to propose an algorithm based on the combination of semantic relations between words and their syntactic composition to identify summarizing strategies employed by students in summary writing. An inno

SUBMITTER: Abdi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4904993 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature