Text Summarization Challenge: Text Summarization Evaluation at NTCIR Workshop2

Abstract

We describe the outline of Text Summarization Challenge (TSC hereafter), a text summarization evaluation conducted as one of the tasks at the NTCIR Workshop2. First, we introduce TSC explaining its background and purpose. Then we describe briefly types of summarization and summarization evaluation methods in general. Next, we focus on TSC, including the participants, the three tasks in TSC, data used, evaluation methods for each task, brief report on the results as well as the features of the Challenge . The future directions for TSC are mentioned at the end as conclusion.