What are the points? What are the stances?Decanting for question-driven retrieval and executive summarization

摘要

Decanter illustrates a heuristicapproach to extraction for informationretrieval and question answering.Generic information aboutargumentative text is found andstored, easing user-focused, questiondrivenaccess to the core information.The emphasis is placed on theargumentative dimension, to addressin particular three types of questions:“What are the points?”, “Based onwhat?” “What are the comments?”.The areas of application of thisapproach include: question-answering,information retrieval, summarization,critical thinking and assistance tospeed reading.