Summarization of specialized discourse: the case of medical articles in Spanish

In this article, we present the current state of our work on a linguistically-motivated model for automatic summarization of medical articles in Spanish. The model takes into account the results of an empirical study which reveals that, on the one hand, domain-specific summarization criteria can oft...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: da Cunha Fanego, Iria, Wanner, Leo, Cabré, M. Teresa (Maria Teresa), 1947-
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10230/16497
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/16497
http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/term.13.2.07cun
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Medicina -- Investigació -- Informàtica
Extractes -- Redacció automàtica
Castellà -- Informàtica
Summarization
Extraction
Medical article
Linguistic analysis
Spanish
Specialized discourse
Descripción
Sumario:In this article, we present the current state of our work on a linguistically-motivated model for automatic summarization of medical articles in Spanish. The model takes into account the results of an empirical study which reveals that, on the one hand, domain-specific summarization criteria can often be derived from the summaries of domain specialists, and, on the other hand, adequate summarization strategies must be multidimensional, i.e., cover various types of linguistic clues. We take into account the textual, lexical, discursive, syntactic and communicative dimensions. This is novel in the field of summarization. The experiments carried out so far indicate that our model is suitable to provide high quality summarizations.