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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Language models for hierarchical summarization Abstract: Hierarchies have long been used for organization, summarization, and access to information. In this dissertation we define summarization in terms of a probabilistic language model and use this definition to explore a new technique for automatically generating topic hierarchies. We use the language model to characterize the documents that will be summarized and then apply a graph-theoretic algorithm to determine the best topic words for the hierarchical summary. This work is very different from previous attempts to generate topic hierarchies because it relies on statistical analysis and language modeling to identify descriptive words for a document and organize the words in a hierarchical structure. |
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