Automatic Text Summarization with Cognitive Psychological Models

Automatic text summarization is closely related with computer science and cognitive psychology. This paper presents an automatic text summarization system (EI-ATS). With the aid of syntactic analysis of sentences and lexical analysis of phrases, EI-ATS applies a cognitive psychological model, the eventindexing model, to automatic text summarization. The evaluation results show that EI-ATS has better performance in multiple documents summarization, and is a better example of the integration of the knowledge from two different but related areas.