SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY PRODUCING FLUENT TEXTUAL SUMMARIES FROM MULTIPLE OPINIONS

摘要

A system and method for automatically generating fluent textual summary from multiple opinions. The opinion summarization system comprises a feature extractor, a text generator and a feature analysis storage. The feature extractor retrieves textual opinions from an opinion database relevant to a predetermined topic and analyzes retrieved textual opinions relevant to the predetermined topic by extracting a plurality of predetermined features from the retrieved textual opinions. The feature analysis storage stores the plurality of predetermined features extracted from the retrieved textual opinions. The text generator generates an opinion summary that summarizes all of the retrieved textual opinions relevant to the predetermined topic by converting the plurality of predetermined features extracted from the retrieved textual opinions into the opinion summary comprising a fluent block of text.