An Automated Summarization Assessment Algorithm for Identifying Summarizing Strategies
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2016
Abstract
Background: Summarization is a process to select important information from a source text. Summarizing strategies are the core cognitive processes in summarization activity. Since summarization can be important as a tool to improve comprehension, it has attracted interest of teachers for teaching summary writing through direct instruction. To do this, they need to review and assess the students' summaries and these tasks are very time-consuming. Thus, a computerassisted assessment can be used to help teachers to conduct this task more effectively. Design/Results: This paper aims to propose an algorithm based on the combination of semantic relations between words and their syntactic composition to identify summarizing strategies employed by students in summary writing. An innovative aspect of our algorithm lies in its ability to identify summarizing strategies at the syntactic and semantic levels. The efficiency of the algorithm is measured in terms of Precision, Recall and F-measure. We then implemented the algorithm for the automated summarization assessment system that can be used to identify the summarizing strategies used by students in summary writing.
Keywords
Human, Human experiment, Recall, Teacher, Writing, Algorithm, Automation, Psychology, Student
Divisions
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Funders
University Malaya (UM): Postgraduate research grant (PPP)-research, grant no: PG184-2014B
Publication Title
PLoS ONE
Volume
11
Issue
1
Publisher
Public Library of Science