Currently, data repositories contain a plethora of information in different formats, most of which consists of text. This situation has raised interest in the study of techniques to automate the identification of the most relevant sentences of a document with the goal of generating a text summary. This article presents a technique for extracting the most representative sentences in a document, employing a user-defined criteria. The criteria is learned by the system using an optimization technique and a training document where the user has ranked the sentences according to their relevance. The proposed method has been applied to a five-chapter thesis with good results. At the end of this paper we provide some conclusions as well as ideas for future work.
['Augusto Villa Monte', 'Laura Cristina Lanzarini', 'Luis Rojas Flores', 'José Ángel Olivas Varela']
Document summarization using a scoring-based representation