Summarizing Narratives

Lehnert, Wendy G.; Black, John B.; Reiser, Brian J.

Summarizing Narratives

Wendy G. Lehnert, John B. Black, Brian J. Reiser

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Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Cognitive Science. Pages 184-188.

Abstract

Most research on narrative text summarization has been conducted within the paradigm of experimental psychology. But recent language processing research in artificial intelligence suggests that the predominant theory of text summarization requires further examination. Seemingly minor structural modifications of a story can result in significant alterations of summary behavior. In this paper, highlights of summary data from 72 subjects are presented and analyzed in terms of two competing summarization models: (1) the story grammar model of psychology, and (2) the plot unit model developed in artificial intelligence . We will show how selected story grammar predictions compare to plot unit predictions for short term summarization and then identify two complicating factors that have a major impact . on summarization behavior.

Wendy G. Lehnert, John B. Black, and Brian J. Reiser. 1981. Summarizing Narratives. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-81. IJCAI, 184–188. https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/38

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