Overview



PERSIVAL stands for PErsonalized Retrieval and Summarization of Image, Video And Language Resource.

The official page for the PERSIVAL project is avalaible here.

Jan 21, 2000: DLI2 Meeting - Presentation of the Text Summarization Module

The Text Summarization module takes as input a patient record and a set of medical articles. The articles are known to be matching globally with the patient record. It generates a summary for the different articles containing results that are important for the patient.

The generation of a summary is done in several phases. We are currently working on the initial phase, the Content Planning. It consists of selecting the information that we want to include in the summmary.

Content Planning

General Algorithm

The content planning phase consists of two main steps:

Sentence Selection Architecture