2006 Volume 13 Issue 3 Pages 91-111
In this paper, we describe a method for automatically generating summary slides from a text.The slide consists of itemizations of extracted texts, and to determine their indentation, we need to analyze relations between sentences/clauses, such as contrast and elaboration.We first analyze the discourse structure of the text by considering three types of information: cue phrases, identification of word chain and similarity between two sentences.Then, we extract topic/non-topic parts from the text and generate the slide by placing the extracted texts, whose indentations are controlled according to the discourse structure.Our experiments demonstrate that generated slides are far easier to read in comparison with original texts.
