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We present an approach for extractive, query-focused, single-document summarisation of medical text. Our approach utilises a combination of target-sentence-specific and target-sentence-independent statistics derived from a corpus specialised for summarisation in the medical domain. We incorporate domain knowledge via the application of multiple domain-specific features, and we customise the answer extraction process for different question types. The use of carefully selected domain-specific features enables our summariser to generate content-rich extractive summaries, and an automatic evaluation of our system reveals that it outperforms other baseline and benchmark summarisation systems with a percentile rank of 96.8%.
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Sarker, A., Mollá, D., Paris, C. (2013). An Approach for Query-Focused Text Summarisation for Evidence Based Medicine. In: Peek, N., Marín Morales, R., Peleg, M. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. AIME 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7885. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38326-7_41
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