Using a Text Mining Tool to Support Text Summarization

This paper presents a mining tool that is able to extract graphs from texts, and proposes their use in helping students to write summaries. The text summarization method is based on the use of the graphs as graphic organizers, leading students to further reflect about the main ideas of the text before getting to the actual task of writing. An experiment carried out demonstrated that the tool helped students reflect about the main ideas of the text and supported the writing of the summaries.