ISCA Archive Interspeech 2010
ISCA Archive Interspeech 2010

The impact of ASR on abstractive vs. extractive meeting summaries

Gabriel Murray, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng

In this paper we describe a complete abstractive summarizer for meeting conversations, and evaluate the usefulness of the automatically generated abstracts in a browsing task. We contrast these abstracts with extracts for use in a meeting browser and investigate the effects of manual versus ASR transcripts on both summary types.