Multi-document Biography Summarization
arXiv (Cornell University)Published 26 January 2005Open access
Liang Zhou, Miruna Ticrea, Eduard Hovy
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Abstract
In this paper we describe a biography summarization system using sentence classification and ideas from information retrieval. Although the individual techniques are not new, assembling and applying them to generate multi-document biographies is new. Our system was evaluated in DUC2004. It is among the top performers in task 5-short summaries focused by person questions.
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