Automatic Update Summarization by a Multiobjective Number-One-Selection Genetic Approach

Currently, the explosive growth of the information available on the Internet makes automatic text summarization systems increasingly important. A particularly relevant challenge is the update summarization task. Update summarization differs from traditional summarization in its dynamic nature. While traditional summarization is static, that is, the document collections about a specific topic remain unchanged, update summarization addresses dynamic document collections based on a specific topic. Therefore, update summarization consists of summarizing the new document collection under the assumption that the user has already read a previous summarization and only the new information is interesting. The multiobjective number-one-selection genetic algorithm (MONOGA) has been designed and implemented to address this problem. The proposed algorithm produces a summary that is relevant to the user’s given query, and it also contains updates information. Experiments were conducted on Text Analysis Conference (TAC) datasets, and Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation (ROUGE) metrics were considered to assess the model performance. The results obtained by the proposed approach outperform those from the existing approaches in the scientific literature, obtaining average percentage improvements between 12.74% and 55.03% in the ROUGE scores.