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These publications constitute the Proceedings of the Document Understanding Conference. DUC proceedings serve as a medium for the dissemination of technical papers written by participants in the DUC workshops. Papers are unrefereed unless indicated otherwise. Certain commercial entities, equipment, or materials may be identified in the papers in order to describe an experimental procedure or concept. Such identification is not intended to imply recommendation or endorsement by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.(See also Other publications citing DUC data)
Papers Indexed by Year
2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001
DUC 2007
Document Understanding Conference
April 26-27, 2007
Hyatt Regency Rochester
Rochester, New York USA
Presented at
NAACL-HLT 2007
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(Note: Papers are in .pdf format unless marked)
ICT CAS at DUC 2007
J. Zhang, H. Xu, X. Wang, H. Shen, Y. Zeng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ICT
A Query-Focused Multi-Document Summarizer Based on Lexical Chains
J. Li, L. Sun, Chinese Academy of Sciences
C. Kit, J. Webster, City University of Hong Kong
Summarization for Q&A at Columbia University for DUC 2007
B. Schiffman, Columbia University
A Term Frequency Distribution Approach for the DUC 2007 Update Task
L.H. Reeve, H. Han, Drexel University
Cascaded Filtering for Topic-Driven Multi-Document Summarization
K. Filippova, M. Mieskes, V. Nastase, S. Paolo Ponzetto, M. Strube, EML Research gGmbH
CLASSY 2007 at DUC 2007
J.M. Conroy, J.D. Schlesinger, IDA/Center for Computing Sciences
D.P. O'Leary, University of Maryland
IIIT Hyderabad at DUC 2007
P. Pingali, R.K. and V. Varma, IIIT, Hyderabad
A Contextual Query Expansion Approach by Term Clustering for Robust Text Summarization
M.R. Amini, N. Usunier, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6
LCC's GISTexter at DUC 2007: Machine Reading for Update Summarization
A. Hickl, K. Roberts and F. Lacatusui, Language Computer Corporation
The PYTHY Summarization System: Microsoft Research at DUC 2007
K. Toutanova, C. Brockett, M. Gamon, J. Jagarlamudi, H. Suzuki, L. Vanderwende, Microsoft Research
Language Model Passage Retrieval for Question-Oriented Multi Document Summarization
J.-C. Ying, S.-J. Yen, Y.-S. Lee, Y.-C. Wu, J.-C. Yang, National Central University
NUS at DUC 2007: Using Evolutionary Models of Text
Z. Lin, T.-S. Chua, M.-Y. Kan, W.S. Lee, L. Qiu, S. Ye, National University of Singapore
Feature Expansion for Query-Focused Supervised Sentence Ranking
S. Fisher, B. Roark, Oregon Health & Science University
Multi-Document Summarization Using Support Vector Regression
S. Li, Y. Ouyang, W. Wang, B. Sun, Peking University
The LIA Summarization System at DUC 2007 (.ps file)
F. Boudin, F. Béchet, M. El-Béze, B. Favre, L. Gillard, Université d'Avignon
J.-M. Torres-Moreno, Université d'Avignon and Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal
A Semantic Free-text Summarization System Using Ontology Knowledge
R. Verma, University of Houston
P. Chen, University of Houston-Downtown
W. Lu, University of Texas-Austin
Generating Update Summaries for DUC 2007
R. Witte, R. Krestel, Universitat Karlsruhe
S. Bergler, Concordia University
University of Lethbridge's Participation in DUC 2007 Main Task
Y. Chali, S.R. Joty, University of Lethbridge
Multiple Alternative Sentence Compressions for Automatic Text Summarization
N. Madnani, D. Zajic, B. Dorr, N. Fazil, A.& J. Lin, University of Maryland, College Park
NICTA's Update and Question-based Summarisation Systems at DUC 2007
N. Stokes, J. Rong, B. Laugher, Y. Li, L. Cavedon, The University of Melbourne
GOFAISUM: A Sympolic Summarizer for DUC
F. Gotti, G. Lapalme, Université de Montréal
L. Nerima, E. Wehrli, Université de Geneve
UNC-CH at DUC 2007: Query Expansion, Lexical Simplification and Sentence Selection Strategies for Multi-Document Summarization
C. Blake, J. Kampov, A.K. Orphanides, D. West, C. Lown, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Catch What You Can
T. Copeck, D. Inkpen, A. Kazantseva, A. Kennedy, D. Kipp, S. Szpakowicz, University of Ottawa
FEMsum at DUC 2007
M. Fuentes, H. Rodriguez, D. Ferres, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya
LAKE System at DUC 2007
E. D'Avanzo, A. Elia, T. Kuflik, S. Vietri, University of Salerno
Comparison of Models Based on Summaries or Documents Towards Extraction of Update Summaries
M. Kolla, O. Vechtomova, C.L.A. Clarke, University of Waterloo
DUC 2006
June 8-9, 2006
New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn, New York USA
Presented at
HLT-NAACL 2006
Overview of DUC 2006 (.pdf) Slides (.pdf)
H.T. Dang, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Applying the Pyramid Method in the 2006 Document Understanding Conference (.pdf)
R. J. Passonneau, K. McKeown, S. Sigelman, A. Goodkind, Columbia University
Slides: DUC 2006 Pyramid Evaluation (.pdf)
R. J. Passonneau, Columbia University
ISCAS at DUC 2006 (.pdf)
Q. Zhou, L. Sun, Y. Lv, Chinese Academy of Sciences
CL Research Summarization in DUC 2006: An Easier Task, An Easier Method? (.pdf)
K.C. Litkowski, CL Research
Integrating Rhetorical-Semantic Relation Models for Query-Focused Summarization (.pdf)
S. Blair-Goldensohn, K. McKeown, Columbia University
Fudan University at DUC 2006 (.pdf)
L. Zhao, L. Wu, X. Huang, Fudan University
Query Focus Guided Sentence Selection Strategy for DUC 2006 (.pdf)
W. Li, B. Li, M. Wu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Back to Basics: CLASSY 2006 (.pdf)
J.M. Conroy, J.D. Schlesinger, IDA
D.P. O'Leary, University of Maryland
J. Goldstein, Department of Defense
Query Independent Sentence Scoring Approach to DUC 2006 (.pdf)
J. Jagarlamudi, P. Pingali, V. Varma, International Institute of Information Technology
LCC's GISTexter at DUC 2006: Multi-Strategy Multi-Document Summarization (.pdf)
F. Lacatusu, A. Hickl, K. Roberts, Y. Shi, J. Bensley, B. Rink, P. Wang, L. Taylor, Language Computer Corporation
Macquarie University at DUC 2006: Question Answering for Summarisation (.pdf)
D. Molla, S. Wan, Macquarie University
Microsoft Research at DUC 2006: Task-Focused Summarization with Sentence Simplification and Lexical Expansion (.pdf)
L. Vanderwende, H. Suzuki, C. Brockett, Microsoft Research
Light-Weight Multi-Document Summarization Based on Two-Pass Re-Ranking (.pdf)
Y.-C. Wu, K.-C. Tsai, National Central University
Y.-S. Lee, Ming Chuan University
J.-C. Yang, National Central University
NUS at DUC 2006: Document Concept Latticefor Summarization (.pdf)
S. Ye, T.-S. Chua, National University of Singapore
Query-Focused Summarization By Supervised Sentence Ranking and Skewed Word Distributions (.pdf)
S. Fisher, B. Roark, Oregon Health & Science University
Peking University at DUC 2006 (.pdf file)
S. Li, Y Ouyang, B. Sun, Peking University
Z. Guo, IBM
Description of SQUASH, the SFU Question Answering Summary Handler for the DUC 2006 Summarization Task (.pdf file)
G. Melli, Z. Shi, Y. Wang, Y. Liu, A. Sarkar, F. Popowich, Simon Fraser University
TLR at DUC 2006: Approximate Tree Similarity and a New Evaluation Regime (.pdf)
F. Schilder, Thomson Legal & Regulatory
B. Thomson McInnes, University of Minnesota
Opinion-Focused Summarization and Its Analysis at DUC 2006 (.pdf)
Y. Seki, M. Aono, Toyohashi University of Technology
K. Eguchi, N. Kando, National Institute of Informatics
The LIA-Thales Summarization System at DUC 2006 (.pdf)
B. Favre, THALES, MMP Laboratory
B. Favre, F. Bechet, P. Bellot, F. Boudin, M. El-Beze, L. Gillard, J.-M. Torres-Moreno, University of Avignon
G. Lapalme, University of Montreal
Slides: A Fusion Strategy for Summarization Using Multiple Systems (.pdf)
Googling Answers' Models in Question-Focused Summarisation (.pdf)
E. Alfonseca, A. Moreno-Sandoval, University Autonoma de Madrid
M. Okumura, Tokyo Institute of Technology
J. M. Guirao, University de Granada
FEMsum at DUC 2006: Semantic-Based Approach Integrated In A Flexible Eclectic Multitask Summarizer Architecture (.pdf)
M. Fuentes, H. Rodriguez, J. Turmo, D. Ferrès, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
IIRG-UCD at DUC 2006 (.pdf)
W. Doran, J. Dunnion, J. Carthy, University College of Dublin
Query-Based Summarization Based on Document Graphs (.pdf)
A. A. Mohamed, S. Rajasekaran, University of Connecticut
Context-Based Multi-Document Summarization Using Fuzzy Coreference Cluster Graphs (.pdf)
R. Witte, R. Krestel, Universität Karlsruhe
S. Bergler, Concordia University
Sentence Compression as a Component of a Multi-Document Summarization System (.pdf)
D.M. Zajic, B. Dorr, J. Lin, University of Maryland
R. Schwartz, BBN Technologies
Sentence Trimming and Selection: Mixing and Matching (.pdf)
D.M. Zajic, B. Dorr, J. Lin, D. P. O'Leary, University of Maryland
J.M. Conroy, J.D. Schlesinger, IDA
Using Biased Random Walks for Focused Summarization (.pdf)
G. Erkan, University of Michigan
Leveraging DUC (.pdf)
T. Copeck, D, Inkpen, A. Kazantseva, A. Kennedy, D. Kipp, V. Nastase, S. Szpakowicz, University of Ottawa
LAKE System at DUC 2006 (.pdf)
E. D'Avanzo, M. Frixione, University of Salerno
T. Kuflik, The University of Haifa
Query-Based Extracting: How toSupport the Answer? (.pdf)
W. Bosma, University of Twente
October 9-10, 2005
The Westin Bayshore Resort & Marina
Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Presented at the
HLT/EMNLP Annual Meeting
- (Note: Papers and slides are in either .ps, .ppt, or .pdf formats)
H.T. Dang, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Applying the Pyramid Method in DUC 2005 (.pdf) Slides (.ppt)
R.J. Passonneau, A. Nenkova, K. McKeown, S. Sigelman, Columbia University
Evaluating DUC 2005 Using Basic Elements (.pdf) Slides (.pdf)
E. Hovy, C.-Y. Lin, L. Zhou, USC-Information Sciences Institute
IS_SUM: A Multi-Document Summarizer Based on Document Index
Graphic and Lexical Chains (.pdf)
Q. Zhou, L. Sun, Chinese Academic of Sciences
J.-Y. Nie, Universite' de Montreal
Evolving XML Summarization Strategies in DUC 2005 (.pdf)
K.C. Litkowski, CL Research
Columbia University at DUC 2005 (.pdf)
S. Blair-Goldensohn, Columbia University
Trade-Off Between Factors Influencing Quality of the Summary (.pdf)
M. Soubbotin, S. Soubbotin, FreeText Software Technologies, Inc.
Fudan University at DUC 2005 (.pdf)
L. Zhao, X. Huang, L. Wu, Fudan University
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University at DUC 2005 (.pdf)
W. Li, W. Li, B. Li, Q. Chen, M. Wu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
CLASSY Query-Based Multi-Document Summarization (.pdf)
J.M. Conroy, J.D. Schlesinger, IDA
J. Goldstein Stewart, Department of Defense
A Relevance-Based Language Modeling Approach to DUC 2005 (.pdf)
J. Jagadeesh, P. Pingali, V. Varma, International Institute of Information Technology
Bayesian Summarization at DUC and a Suggestion for Extrinsic Evaluation (.pdf)
H. Daume III, D. Marcu, Information Sciences Institute
A Keyphrase-Based Approach to Summarization: The Lake Systemat DUC 2005 (. pdf)
E. D'Avanzo, ITC-irst and DIT-University of Trento
B. Magnini, ITC-irst
Lite-GISTexter at DUC 2005 (.pdf)
F. Lacatusu, A. Hickl, P. Aarseth, Language Computer Corporation
L. Taylor, University of California, San Diego
NUS at DUC 2005: Understanding Documents via Concept Links(.pdf)
S. Ye, L. Qiu, T.-S. Chua, National University of Singapore
OGI/OHSU Baseline Query-Directed Multi-Document Summarization System for DUC 2005 (.pdf)
S. Fisher, B. Roark, J. Yang, B. Hersh, Oregon Health and Science University
Description of SQUASH, the SFU Question Answering SummaryHandler for the DUC 2005 Summarization Task (.pdf)
G. Melli, Y. Wang, Y. Liu, M.M. Kashani, Z. Shi, B. Gu, A. Sarkar, F. Popowich, Simon Fraser University
TLR at DUC: Tree Similarity (.pdf)
F. Schilder, A. McCulloh, A. Zhou, Thomson Legal and Regulatory
B. Thomson McInnes, University of Minnesota
Multi-Document Summarization with Subjectivity Analysis at DUC 2005 (.pdf)
Y. Seki, M. Aono, Toyohashi University
K. Eguchi, N. Kando, National Institute of Informatics
Description of the UAM System at DUC 2005 (.pdf)
R. Torralbo, E. Alfonseca, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
J. M. Guirao, Universidad de Granada
A. Moreno-Sandoval, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
IIRG-UCD at DUC 2005 (.pdf)
W. Doran, E. Newman, J. Dunnion, J. Carthy, University College Dublin
N. Stokes, University of Melbourne
The Embra System at DUC 2005: Query-Oriented Multi-DocumentSummarization With a Very Large Latent Semantic Space (.pdf)
B. Hachey, G. Murray, D. Reitter, University of Edinburgh
ERSS 2005: Coreference-Based Summarization Reloaded (.pdf)
R. Witte, R. Krestel, Universität Karlsruhe
S. Bergler, Concordia University
A Sentence-Trimming Approach to Multi-Document Summarization (.pdf)
D. Zajic, B. Dorr, J. Lin, C. Monz, University of Maryland, College Park
R. Schwartz, BBN Technologies
CATS A Topic-Oriented Multi-Document Summarization System at DUC 2005 (.pdf)
A. Farzindar, F. Rozon, G. Lapalme, Universite de Montreal
Leveraging Pyramids (.pdf)
T. Copeck, S. Szpakowicz, University of Ottawa
QASUM-TALP at DUC 2005 Automatically Evaluated with a Pyramid Based Metric (.pdf)
M. Fuentes, E. Gonzaelz, D. Ferres, H. Rodriguez, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Topic-Based Summarization at DUC 2005 (.pdf)
H. Saggion, University of Sheffield
A BE-based Multi-Document Summarizer with Query Interpretation (.pdf)
L. Zhou, C.-Y. Lin, E. Hovy, USC-Information Sciences Institute
Experiments in DUC 2005 (.pdf)
M. Kolla, University of Waterloo, Canada
Y. Chali, University of Lethbridge, Canada
May 6-7, 2004
Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers, Boston, USA
Presented at the
HLT/NAACL Annual Meeting
- (Note: Papers and slides are either in .ps, or .pdf formats)
- Slides:
An Introduction to DUC 2004 Intrinsic Evaluation of Generic New Text Summarization Systems (.pdf)
P. Over, J. Yen, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Michigan at DUC04--
Using Sentence Prestigue for Document Summarization (.ps)
G. Erkan, D. Radev, University of Michigan
- Papers:
Summarization Experiments in DUC 2004 (.pdf)
K.C. Litkowski, CL Research
Columbia University at DUC 2004 (.ps)
S. Blair-Goldenshohn, D. Evans, V. Hatzivassiloglou, K. McKeown, A. Nenkova, R. Passonneau, B. Schiffman, A. Schlaikjer, A. Siddharthan, S. Siegelman, Columbia University
Multi-ERSS and ERSS 2004 (.pdf)
S. Bergler, R. Witte, Z. Li, M. Khalife, Y. Chen, M. Doandes, A. Andreevskaia, Concordia University
Left-Brain/Right-Brain Multi-Document Summarization (.ps)
J. M. Conroy, J. D. Schlesinger, IDA/Center for Computing Sciences,
J.Goldstein, Department of Defense
D. P. O'Leary, University of Maryland
Keyphrase Extraction for Summarization Purposes: The LAKE System at DUC-2004 (.pdf)
E. D'Avanzo, B. Magnini, A. Vallin, ITC-irst
K.U. Leuven Summarization System at DUC 2004 (.pdf)
R. Angheluta, R. Mitra, X. Jing, M.-F. Moens, Katholieke Universiteit Lueven
Lite-GISTexter at DUC2004 (.ps)
F. Lacatusu, A. Hickl, S. Harabagiu, L. Nezda, Language Computer Corporation
Summarization at LARIS Laboratory (.pdf)
J. K. Fatma, J. Maher, B. H. Lamia, B. H. Abdelmajid, LARIS Laboratory
Event-Centric Summary Generation (.pdf)
L. Vanderwende, M. Banko, A. Menezes, Microsoft
NTT'S Multiple Document Summarization System for DUC2004 (.pdf)
T. Hirao, J. Suzuki, H. Isozaki, E. Maeda, NTT Corporation
CRL/NYU Summarization System at DUC-2004 (.pdf)
C. Nobata, National Institute of Information and Communication Technology
S. Sekine, New York University
Description of the UAM System For Generating Very Short Summaries at DUC 2004 (.pdf)
E. Alfonseca, A. Moreno-Sandoval, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
J. M. Guirao, Universidad de Granada
News Story Gisting at University College Dublin (.pdf)
W. Doran, N. Stokes, E. Newman, J. Dunnion, J. Carthy, F. Toolan, Intelligent Information Retrieval Group, Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin
Summarization Techniques at DUC 2004(.pdf)
Y. Chali, M. Kolla, University of Lethbridge
BBN/UMD at DUC-2004: Topiary (.pdf)
D. Zajic, B. Dorr, University of Maryland
R. Schwartz, BBN Technologies
The University of Michigan at DUC 2004 (.ps)
G. Erkan, D. R. Radev, University of Michigan
Lakhas, an Arabic Summarization System (.pdf)
F. S. Douzidia, G. Lapalme, Universite de Montreal
Vocabulary Agreement Amoung Model Summaries And Source Documents (.pdf)
T. Copeck, S. Szpakowicz, University of Ottawa
Decremental Feature-Based Compaction (.pdf)
B. Kolluru, H. Christensen, Y. Gotoh, University of Sheffield
Multi-Document Summarization by Cluster/Profile Relevance and Redundancy Removal (.pdf)
H. Saggion, R. Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield
A Tree-Position Kernel for Document Compression (.ps)
H. Daume III, D. Marcu, USC, Information Sciences Institute
Feature Selection for Summarising: The Sunderland DUC 2004 Experience (.pdf)
S. Liang, S. Devlin, J. Tait, University of Sunderland
DUC 2003 - Papers:
May 31-June 1, 2003
Edmonton, Canada
Presented at the
2003 Human Language Technology Conference
- (Note: Papers are either in .ps, .pdf or MS WORD formats; slides are .ppt)
Intrinsic Evaluation of Generic News Text Summarization Systems (.ppt) (.pdf) (.ps)
P. Over, J. Yen, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Text Summarization Using XML-Tagged Documents (.pdf)
K.C. Litkowski, CL Research
Columbia at the Document Understanding Conference 2003 (.ps)
A. Nenkova, B. Schiffman, A. Schlaiker, S. Blair-Goldensohn, R. Barzilay, S. Sigelman,
V. Hatzivassiloglou, K. McKeown, Columbia University
Results of CRL/NYU System at DUC-2003 and an Experiment on Division of Document Sets (.ps)
C. Nobata, Communications Research Laboratory
S. Sekine, New York University
Using Knowledge-poor Coreference Resolution for Text Summarization (.pdf)
S. Bergler, R. Witte, M. Khalife, Z. Li, F. Rudzicz, Concordia University
Approaches to Event-Focused Summarization Based on Named Entities and Query Words (MS WORD file)
J. Ge, X. Huang, L. Wu, Fudan University
A New Multi-document Summarization System (.pdf)
Y. Guo, G. Stylios, Heriot-Watt University
K.U.Leuven Summarization System - DUC 2003 (.ps)
R. Angheluta, M.-F. Moens, R. De Busser, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
KU Text Summarization System for DUC 2003 (.ps)
K.-S. Han, Y.-I. Song, H.-C. Rim, Korea University
LITE-GISTEXTER: Generating Short Summaries with Minimal Resources (.ps)
V. Finley Lacatusu, P. Parker, S.M. Harabagiu, Language Computer Corporation
NTT's Multiple Document Summarization System for DUC2003 (.ps)
T. Hirao, J. Suzuki, H. Isozaki, E. Maeda, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corp.
Description of the UAM System for Generating Very Short Summaries at DUC 2003 (.ps)
E. Alfonseca, P. Rodriguez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Mixed Approach to Headline Extraction for DUC 2003 (.pdf)
M. Fuentes, M. Massot, Universitat de Girona
H. Rodriguez, Universitat de Barcelona
L. Alonso, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
The University of Lethbridge Text Summarizer at DUC 2003 (.ps)
Y. Chali, M. Kolla, N. Singh, Z. Zhang, University of Lethbridge
Performance of a Three-Stage System for Multi-Document Summarization (.ps)
D.M. Dunlavy, D.P. O'Leary, University of Maryland
J.M. Conroy, J.D. Schlesinger, IDA/Center for Computing Sciences
S.A. Goodman, M.E. Okurowski, Department of Defense
MEAD ReDUCs: Michigan at DUC 2003 (.pdf)
D.R. Radev, J. Otterbacher, H. Qi, D. Tam, University of Michigan
Using Background Information for Multi-document Summarization and Summaries in Response to a Question (.pdf)
A. Farzindar, G. Lapalme, Universite de Montreal
Headline Summarization at ISI (.pdf)
L. Zhou, E. Hovy, USC Information Sciences Institute
Picking Phrases, Picking Sentences (.ps)
T. Copeck, S. Szpakowicz, University of Ottawa
July 11-12, 2002
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
In Conjunction with the ACL 2002
and including the DARPA/NIST sponsored DUC 2002 Meeting on Text Summarization
Co-Chairs:
Udo Hahn, University of Freiburg
Donna Harman, NIST
- (Note: Papers are either in .ps or .pdf formats; slides are .ppt)
- P. Over, W. Liggett, National Institute of Standards and Technology
An Approach to Summarization Based on Lexical Bonds
M. Karamuftuoglu, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Automatic Headline Generation for Newspaper Stories
D. Zajic, B. Door, University of Maryland
R. Schwartz, BBN
Extract-based Summarization with Simplification
P. Lal, S. Rüger, Imperial College
Generating Single and Multi-Document Summaries with GISTEXTER
S.M. Harabagiu, F. Lacatusu, Languague Computer Corporation
GLEANS: A Generator of Logical Extracts and Abstracts for Nice Summaries
H. Daumé III, A. Echihabi, D. Marcu, D.S. Munteanu, R. Soricut, Information Sciences Institute and Department of Computer Science/University of Southern California
Headline extraction based on a combination of uni- and multidocument summarization techniques
W. Kraaij, M. Spitters, A. Hulth, TNO-TPD
Learning How Best to Summarize
T. Copeck, S. Szpakowicz, N. Japkowicz, University of Ottawa
NeATS in DUC 2002
C-Y. Lin, E. Hovy, University of Southern California
NTT's Text Summarization System for DUC-2002
T. Hirao, Y. Sasaki, H. Isozaki, E. Maeda, NTT Communication Science Laboratoires
Summaries with SumUM and its Expansion for Document Understanding Conference (DUC 2002)
A. Farzindar, G. Lapalme, Université de Montréal
H. Saggion, University of Sheffield
The Columbia Multi-Document Summarizer for DUC 2002
K. McKeown, D. Evans, A. Nenkova, R. Barzilay, V. Hatzivassiloglou, B. Schiffman, S. Blair-Goldensohn, J. Klavans, S. Sigelman, Columbia University
The Michigan Single and Multi-document Summarizer for DUC 2002
J.C. Otterbacher, A.J. Winkel, D.R. Radev, University of Michigan
The University of Lethbridge Text Summarizer at DUC 2002
M. Brunn, Y. Chali, B. Dufour, University of Lethbridge
The Use of Topic Segmentation for Automatic Summarization
R. Angheluta, R. De Busser, M-F. Moens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Understanding Machine Performance in the Context of Human Performance for Multi-Document Summarization
J.D. Schlesinger and J.M. Conroy, IDA
M.E. Okurowski and H.T. Wilson, Department of Defense
D.P. O'Leary, University of Maryland
A. Taylor, SRA
J. Hobbs, Kathpal Technologies
Writing Style Recognition and Sentence Extraction
H. van Halteren, University of Nijmegen
September 13-14, 2001
New Orleans, Louisiana USA
In Conjunction with the ACM SIGIR Conference 2001
and including the DARPA/NIST sponsored DUC 2001 Meeting on Summary Evaluation
Co-Chairs:
Donna Harman, NIST
Daniel Marcu, USC, Information Sciences Institute
- (Note: Papers are either in .ps or .pdf formats)
(slides)
E. Boros, P.B. Kantor, D.J. Neu, Rutgers University
An Empirical Study of the Relation Between Abstracts, Extracts, and the Discourse Structure of Texts
L. Carlson, M.E. Okurowski, Department of Defense
J. M. Conroy, Institute for Defense Analysis
D. Marcu, W. Wong, USC Information Sciences Institute
D. P. O'Leary, University of Maryland, Computer Science Department
A. Taylor, SRA International, Inc.
Baldwin Language Technology's DUC Summarization System
B. Baldwin, A. Ross, Baldwin Language Technologies
Columbia Multi-Document Summarization: Approach and Evaluation
K.R. McKeown, R. Barzilay, D. Evans, V. Hatzivassiloglou, M. Yen Kan, B. Schiffman, S. Teufel, Columbia University
Combining a Mixture Language Model and Naive Bayes for Multi-Document Summarisation
W. Kraaij, M. Spitters, M. van der Heijden, TNO-TPD
Combining the Ranked Output from Fulltext and Summary Indexes
T. Sakai, Toshiba Corporate R&D Center
Cross-Document Summarization by Concept Classification
H. Hardy, N. Shimizu, T. Strzalkowski, L. Ting, X. Zhang,
University of Albany
G. Bowden Wise, GE Corporate R&D Center
Detecting Discrepancies and Improving Intelligibility: Two Preliminary Evaluations of RIPTIDES
M. White, D. McCullough, CoGenTex, Inc.
C. Cardie, V. Ng, K. Wagstaff, Cornell University
Discourse-Based Summarization in DUC-2001
D. Marcu, University of Southern California
Domain-Specific Informative and Indicative Summarization for Information Retrieval
M-Y Kan, K.R. McKeown, J.L. Klavans, Columbia University
Experiments in Single and Multi-Document
Summarization Using MEAD
D.R. Radev, S. Blair-Goldensohn, Z. Zhang, University of Michigan
Factorial Summary Evaluation
K. Spärck Jones, University of Cambridge
GISTexter: A System for Summarizing Text Documents (slides)
S. Harabagiu, D. Moldovan, P. Morarescu, F. Lacatusu, R. Mihalcea,
V. Rus, R. Girju, University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas at Dallas, Southern Methodist University and Language Computer Corporation
Introduction to DUC-2001: an Intrinsic Evaluaton of Generic News Text Summarization Systems (slides)
Paul Over, NIST
ModDBS-XM: A Diversity Based Summarizer for DUC
T. Nomoto, National Institute of Japanese Literature
NEATS: A Multidocument Summarizer
C-Y Lin, E. Hovy, USC Information Sciences Institute
Report from Johns Hopkins Summer Workshop "Automatic Summarization of Multiple (Multilingual) Documents" (talk)
D.R. Radev, University of Michigan
Sentence Extraction with Information Extraction Technique
S. Sekine, New York University
C. Nobata, CRL (Japan)
Text Summarization as Controlled Search
T. Copeck, N. Japkowicz, S. Szpakowicz, University of Ottawa
Text Summarization Using Lexical Chains
M. Brunn, Y. Chali, C.J. Pinchak, University of Lethbridge
The Future: Summarization as QA (slides)
E. Hovy, USC Information Sciences Institute
Using Document Features and Statistical Modeling to Improve Query-Based Summarization
J.D. Schlesinger, IDA
D.J. Baker, Department of Defense
R.L. Donaway, Logicon Technology Solutions
Using HMM and Logistic Regression to Generate Extract Summaries for DUC
J.M. Conroy, J.D. Schlesinger, IDA
D.P. O'Leary, University of Maryland
M.E. Okurowski, Department of Defense
Very Short Summaries: 4 Methods (slides)
S. Sista, R. Schwartz, R. Weischedel, BBN Technologies
