CIRSS Seminar: Ana Lucic

Doctoral candidate Ana Lucic will give a talk titled, "Summarization of Biomedical Texts by Utilizing the Information Extracted from Comparative Sentences," at this CIRSS Seminar.

Abstract: Comparison sentences represent a rhetorical structure that is commonly used to communicate the findings of an empirical study. Although the overall percentage of comparison sentences in an article is rather small (in the four biomedical collections examined it hovered around 5% of the overall number of sentences) comparisons are rich with information that relate how the properties of one entity relate to that of a compared entity. The richness of information conveyed through comparison sentences, however, is generally underutilized. This project aims to tease out the crucial facets of a comparison claim (Blake, 2010) which represents an important step towards summarizing and linking the information conveyed through comparative sentences across texts.

Ana Lucic is a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Her research focuses on developing methods that allow news ways of evaluating, analyzing, and summarizing textual documents.

This event is sponsored by Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship