Columbia University at DUC 2004
Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University)Published 1 January 2004Open access
Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, David K. Evans, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Kathleen McKeown, Ani Nenkova, Rebecca J. Passonneau
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For each task, the system(s) used, focusing on novel and newly developed aspects, are presented, and the results of the human and automatic evaluations are analyzed.
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We describe our participation in tasks 2, 4 and 5 of the DUC 2004 evaluation. For each task, we present the system (s) used, focusing on novel and newly developed aspects. We also analyze the results of the human and automatic evaluations.
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