The First Step for Personalised Learning of Abridgement Education: The Character-Based Pyramid Method and Semi-Automatic Implementation

Abridgement is a form of summarisation task that offers an innovative learning approach for enhancing reading comprehension within language education. To scale up the application of Abridgement Method at Kobe Tokiwa University, we propose the novel Character-Pyramid (CP) method and a semi-automatic abridgement generation methodology. The CP method is designed to automate the evaluation of abridged summaries and is accompanied by the semi-automatic abridgement method. Our data analysis reveals that the CP method diverges manual assessment by an expert, whereas the semi-automatic abridgement method demonstrates its reliability.