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This paper describes a summarization engine developed primarily for the Czech language. Therefore, the engine takes advantage of language-dependent preprocessing modules performing segmentation of the input document into sentences, lemmatization and substitution of synonyms. Our system is also implemented as a dynamic library which can be employed in either a web or a desktop application, and supports a variety of summarization methods. To evaluate the performance of the system, several experiments are conducted in this paper using a set of manually created summaries. The obtained results show that our engine yields an outcome for Czech which is better or at least comparable to other online summarization systems. The above-mentioned reference summaries and the presented summarization engine are available online at http://summec.ite.tul.cz .
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Rott, M., Červa, P. (2013). SummEC: A Summarization Engine for Czech. In: Habernal, I., Matoušek, V. (eds) Text, Speech, and Dialogue. TSD 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8082. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40585-3_66
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