Thesis Proposal

Title:

Combining Features and Content Selections in Multi-document Summarization

Proposed by:

Rosalina

001201307002

Master of Science in Information Technology

Thesis Advisor : Dr. Rila Mandala

 PRESIDENT UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF COMPUTING
GRADUATE THESIS PROPOSAL

Name : Rosalina

Student ID : 001201307002

Major : Information Technology

SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE:

Technical and Academic Advisor : Dr. Ir. Rila Mandala, M.Eng

Dean of Faculty of Computing : Dr. Ir. Rila Mandala, M.Eng

TITLE OF PROJECT:

Combining Features and Content Selections in Multidocument Summarization

TECHNICAL AND ACADEMIC SUPERVISOR: Dr. Ir. Rila Mandala, M.Eng

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DEAN OF FACULTY OF COMPUTING: Dr. Ir. Rila Mandala, M.Eng

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Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................................................ 3

ABSTRACT ..................................................................................................................................... 4
INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................... 4
RELATED WORK.......................................................................................................................... 4
PROBLEM STATEMENT ............................................................................................................. 4
SCOPE AND LIMITATION .......................................................................................................... 4
PURPOSE ........................................................................................................................................ 4
METHODOLOGY.......................................................................................................................... 5
TIMELINE ...................................................................................................................................... 6
SUMMARY ..................................................................................................................................... 6
BIBLIOGRAPHY ........................................................................................................................... 6

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Abstract

Introduction
With the rapid growth of online information, the information flow faster and it’s
easily accessed online in many kind of form such as news article, e-books, blog,
and scientific paper. However it is not easy and waste significant time for users to
manually summarize those huge mass of online documents.

Automatic multi-document summarization may provide a solution for reducing

information overload and helps to produce high quality summaries of collections
of related documents [1].

A number of research in multi-document summarization had been conducted

using sentence selection approach (

Related Work

Problem Statement

Scope and Limitation

Purpose

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Resources Required

Methodology

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Timeline

Summary

Bibliography

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Bibliography

[1] Towards Coherent Multi-Document Summarization. Christensen, Janara, et al.,

et al. Atlanta, Georgia : Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013.
Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2013. page. 1163-1173.