Use of Genetic Algorithm for Cohesive Summary Extraction to Assist Reading Difficulties
Joint Authors
Nandhini, K.
Balasundaram, S. R.
Source
Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing
Issue
Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-11, 11 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2013-06-17
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
11
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
Learners with reading difficulties normally face significant challenges in understanding the text-based learning materials.
In this regard, there is a need for an assistive summary to help such learners to approach the learning documents with minimal difficulty.
An important issue in extractive summarization is to extract cohesive summary from the text.
Existing summarization approaches focus mostly on informative sentences rather than cohesive sentences.
We considered several existing features, including sentence location, cardinality, title similarity, and keywords to extract important sentences.
Moreover, learner-dependent readability-related features such as average sentence length, percentage of trigger words, percentage of polysyllabic words, and percentage of noun entity occurrences are considered for the summarization purpose.
The objective of this work is to extract the optimal combination of sentences that increase readability through sentence cohesion using genetic algorithm.
The results show that the summary extraction using our proposed approach performs better in F-measure, readability, and cohesion than the baseline approach (lead) and the corpus-based approach.
The task-based evaluation shows the effect of summary assistive reading in enhancing readability on reading difficulties.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Nandhini, K.& Balasundaram, S. R.. 2013. Use of Genetic Algorithm for Cohesive Summary Extraction to Assist Reading Difficulties. Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-510302
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Nandhini, K.& Balasundaram, S. R.. Use of Genetic Algorithm for Cohesive Summary Extraction to Assist Reading Difficulties. Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-510302
American Medical Association (AMA)
Nandhini, K.& Balasundaram, S. R.. Use of Genetic Algorithm for Cohesive Summary Extraction to Assist Reading Difficulties. Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-510302
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-510302