Affiliation:
1. Anhanguera University, Brazil
Abstract
Summary evaluation is a challenging issue. It is subjective, costly, time consuming, and, if it is human-assisted, can generate some bias. Due to this, several attempts have been made in the last decades in order to avoid all these drawbacks. Those attempts focused on automatic summary evaluation. This chapter provides a comprehensive survey about studies that have dealt with this topic and proposes and describes the development of an automatic summary evaluation method. In addition, it presents some experiments that have been carried out in order to assess the method’s performance.