Computer-aided summarisation – what the user really wants

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006)

Abstract

Computer-aided summarisation is a technology developed at the University of Wolverhampton as a complement to automatic summarisation, to produce high quality summaries with less effort. To achieve this, a user-friendly environment which incorporates several well-known summarisation methods has been developed. This paper presents the main features of the computer-aided summarisation environment and explains the changes introduced to it as a result of user feedback.