A qualitative analysis of a corpus of opinion summaries based on aspects

Roque E. López, Lucas V. Avanço, Pedro P.B. Filho, Alessandro Y. Bokan, Paula C.F. Cardoso, Márcio S. Dias, Fernando A.A. Nóbrega, Marco A.S. Cabezudo, Jackson W.C. Souza, Andressa C.I. Zacarias, Eloize M.R. Seno, Ariani Di Felippo, Thiago A.S. Pardo

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Abstract

Aspect-based opinion summarization is the task of automatically generating a summary for some aspects of a specific topic from a set of opinions. In most cases, to evaluate the quality of the automatic summaries, it is necessary to have a reference corpus of human summaries to analyze how similar they are. The scarcity of corpora in that task has been a limiting factor for many research works. In this paper, we introduce OpiSums-PT, a corpus of extractive and abstractive summaries of opinions written in Brazilian Portuguese. We use this corpus to analyze how similar human summaries are and how people take into account the issues of aspect coverage and sentiment orientation to generate manual summaries. The results of these analyses show that human summaries are diversified and people generate summaries only for some aspects, keeping the overall sentiment orientation with little variation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLAW 2015 - 9th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, held in conjuncion with NAACL 2015 - Proceedings of the Workshop
EditorsAdam Meyers, Ines Rehbein, Heike Zinsmeister
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages62-71
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781941643471
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event9th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, LAW 2015, held in conjuncion with NAACL 2015 - Denver, United States
Duration: 5 Jun 2015 → …

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NameLAW 2015 - 9th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, held in conjuncion with NAACL 2015 - Proceedings of the Workshop

Conference

Conference9th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, LAW 2015, held in conjuncion with NAACL 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDenver
Period5/06/15 → …

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