Developing a new approach to summarize Arabic text automatically using syntactic and semantic analysis

  • Authors

    • Amal Alkhudari University of Kalamoon
    2020-04-03
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v9i2.30324
  • Abstractive Summarization, Ontology, Semantic Similarity, Syntactic Analysis, Word Sense Disambiguation.

  • Abstract

    Due to the wide spread information and the diversity of its sources, there is a need to produce an accurate text summary with the least time and effort. This summary must  preserve key information content and overall meaning of the original text. Text summarization is one of the most important applications of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The goal of automatic text summarization is to create summaries that are similar to human-created ones. However, in many cases, the readability of created summaries is not satisfactory,   because the summaries do not consider the meaning of the words and do not cover all the semantically relevant aspects of data. In this paper we use syntactic and semantic analysis to propose an automatic system of Arabic texts summarization. This system is capable of understanding the meaning of information and retrieves only the relevant part. The effectiveness and evaluation of the proposed work are demonstrated under EASC corpus using Rouge measure. The generated summaries will be compared against those done by human and precedent researches.

     

     

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    Alkhudari, A. (2020). Developing a new approach to summarize Arabic text automatically using syntactic and semantic analysis. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 9(2), 342-349. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v9i2.30324

    Received date: 2020-01-17

    Accepted date: 2020-03-14

    Published date: 2020-04-03