Multilingual Summarization by Integrating Linguistic Resources in the MLIS-MUSI Project

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002)

Abstract

In this paper we will illustrate the approach to multilingual automatic abstract production adopted by the EU-sponsored project MLIS-MUSI. Although a small scale research project, MUSI has tried to tackle the challenges set by multilingual summarization by adopting an original approach based on the definition of a shared ontology and representation language, and on the reuse of existing linguistic resources. MUSI combines a linguistic-based module for relevant sentence extraction and a concept-based component to generate multilingual summaries.