US 11,687,715 B2
Summary generation method and apparatus
Moye Chen, Beijing (CN); Wei Xu, Beijing (CN); Jiachen Liu, Beijing (CN); Xinyan Xiao, Beijing (CN); and Qiaoqiao She, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Beijing (CN)
Filed by BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Beijing (CN)
Filed on Jun. 2, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/890,685.
Claims priority of application No. 201911272761.1 (CN), filed on Dec. 12, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0182491 A1, Jun. 17, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 40/258 (2020.01); G06F 40/289 (2020.01)
CPC G06F 40/289 (2020.01) [G06F 40/258 (2020.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A summary generation method comprising:
receiving a webpage processing request from a user terminal;
acquiring a target article including a headline and a body of the article according to the received webpage processing request;
determining whether a question is included in the headline;
determining, in the body of the article, an information-satisfied-paragraph including an answer to the question, in response to determining that the question is included in the headline; and
generating a summary of the target article based on the determined information-satisfied-paragraph, and sending the generated summary to the user terminal;
wherein determining that the question is included in the headline comprises:
determining that the question is included in the headline, in response to determining that the headline includes a referential relationship but does not include an object to which the referential relationship refers, and
wherein generating a summary of the target article based on the determined information-satisfied-paragraph comprises:
deleting invalid statements included: the information-satisfied-paragraph, one paragraph preceding the information-satisfied-paragraph, and one paragraph following the information-satisfied-paragraph, the invalid statements comprising statements for describing pictures, statements consistent with the headline, and a header; and
generating the summary based on each paragraph with the invalid statements deleted.