Learning-Based Single-Document Summarization with Compression and Anaphoricity Constraints

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We present a discriminative model for single-document summarization that integrally combines compression and anaphoricity constraints.

• Our model selects textual units to include in the summary based on a rich set of sparse features whose weights are learned on a large corpus.
• We allow for the deletion of content within a sentence when that deletion is licensed by compression rules; in our framework, these are implemented as dependencies between subsentential units of text.
• Anaphoricity constraints then improve cross-sentence coherence by guaranteeing that, for each pronoun included in the summary, the pronoun's antecedent is included as well or the pronoun is rewritten as a full mention.