Title
Summarisation of the logical structure of XML documents
Abstract
Summarisation is traditionally used to produce summaries of the textual contents of documents. In this paper, it is argued that summarisation methods can also be applied to the logical structure of XML documents. Structure summarisation selects the most important elements of the logical structure and ensures that the user's attention is focused towards sections, subsections, etc. that are believed to be of particular interest. Structure summaries are shown to users as hierarchical tables of contents. This paper discusses methods for structure summarisation that use various features of XML elements in order to select document portions that a user's attention should be focused to. An evaluation methodology for structure summarisation is also introduced and summarisation results using various summariser versions are presented and compared to one another. We show that data sets used in information retrieval evaluation can be used effectively in order to produce high quality (query independent) structure summaries. We also discuss the choice and effectiveness of particular summariser features with respect to several evaluation measures.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1016/j.ipm.2011.11.002
Inf. Process. Manage.
Keywords
Field
DocType
summarisation result,xml element,evaluation methodology,evaluation measure,summarisation method,structure summarisation,structure summary,logical structure,xml document,information retrieval evaluation
Data mining,Data set,Information retrieval,XML,Computer science,XML retrieval,Structure (mathematical logic)
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
48
5
0306-4573
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.37
25
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zoltán Szlávik111621.40
Anastasios Tombros282759.62
Mounia Lalmas32593225.26