Document Aboutness via Sophisticated Syntactic and Semantic Features

Abstract

The document aboutness problem asks for creating a succinct representation of a document’s subject matter via keywords, sentences or entities drawn from a Knowledge Base. In this paper we propose an approach to solve this problem which improves the known solutions over all known datasets. It is based on a wide and detailed experimental study of syntactic and semantic features drawn from the input document thanks to the use of some IR/NLP tools. To encourage and support reproducible experimental results on this task, we will make accessible our system via a public API: this is the first, and best performing, tool publicly available for the document aboutness problem.

Publication
International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2017). Full paper, acceptance rate 17%