2021/03/25 by Sansiri Tarnpradab, Tarnpradab, Sansiri, Fereshteh Jafariakinabad +3 · 3 citations
Computer Science · #Advanced Text Analysis Techniques #Artificial intelligence #Artificial neural network #Automatic summarization #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #Computer science #FOS: Computer and information sciences #GRASP #Information retrieval #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Natural Language Processing Techniques #Natural language processing #Online forum #Sentence #Thread (computing) #Topic Modeling #World Wide Web #cs.CL #cs.LG
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2103.13587
published in arXiv (Cornell University) (Cornell University) · 18 pages, 7 figures
openalex publication_date 2021/03/25 · arxiv created 2021/05/18 · arxiv updated 2021/05/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Online discussion forums are prevalent and easily accessible, thus allowing people to share ideas and opinions by posting messages in the discussion threads. Forum threads that significantly grow in length can become difficult for participants, both newcomers and existing, to grasp main ideas. To mitigate this problem, this study aims to create an automatic text summarizer for online forums. We present Hierarchical Unified Deep Neural Network to build sentence and thread representations for the forum summarization. In this scheme, Bi-LSTM derives a representation that comprises information of the whole sentence and whole thread; whereas, CNN captures most informative features with respect to context from sentence and thread. Attention mechanism is applied on top of CNN to further highlight high-level representations that carry important information contributing to a desirable summary. Extensive performance evaluation has been conducted on three datasets, two of which are real-life online forums and one is news dataset. The results reveal that the proposed model outperforms several competitive baselines.