# A Lemma Based Evaluator for Semitic Language Text Summarization Systems

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.5596 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1403.5596/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 22 Mar 2014.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Lemmatization as a Classification Task: Results from Arabic across Multiple Genres](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.18399/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Matching texts in highly inflected languages such as Arabic by simple stemming strategy is unlikely to perform well. In this paper, we present a strategy for automatic text matching technique for for inflectional languages, using Arabic as the test case. The system is an extension of ROUGE test in which texts are matched on token's lemma level. The experimental results show an enhancement of detecting similarities between different sentences having same semantics but written in different lexical forms..