Probabilistic neural network based text summarization

This work proposes an approach to address the problem of improving content selection in automatic text summarization by using probabilistic neural network (PNN). This approach is a trainable summarizer, which takes into account several features, including sentence position, positive keyword, negative keyword, sentence centrality, sentence resemblance to the title, sentence inclusion of name entity, sentence inclusion of numerical data, sentence relative length, Bushy path of the sentence and aggregated similarity for each sentence to generate summaries. First we investigate the effect of each sentence feature on the summarization task. Then we use all features in combination to train the probabilistic neural network (PNN) in order to construct a text summarizer model.