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Toward Analyzing The Diversity Of Extractive Summaries, Aaron David Hudson

Dissertations and Theses

As the amount of text generated across the internet continues to increase, developing methods for processing that text to glean valuable insights is paramount. Automatic text summarization is one such method that aims to provide a concise and representative summary of input text, allowing users access to the most salient points from a large amount of textual data. However, in working with these summaries, especially those generated from social media data, questions arise about not only the quality of a summary, but also its ability to reflect the diversity of user perspectives. This work examines the quality of summaries with …