Enhancement of Single Document Text Summarization using Reinforcement Learning with Non-Deterministic Rewards

Abstract

A text summarization system generates short and brief summaries of original document for given user queries. The machine generated summaries uses information retrieval techniques for searching relevant answers from large corpus. This research article proposes a novel framework for generating machine generated summaries using reinforcement learning techniques with Non-deterministic reward function. Experiments have exemplified with ROUGE evaluation metrics with DUC 2001, 20newsgroup data. Evaluation results of proposed system with hypothesis of automatic summarization from given datasets prove that statistically significant improvement for answering complex questions with factual vs. critical values.