JOURNAL ARTICLE

Multi-document Biography Summarization

Liang ZhouMiruna TicreaEduard Hovy

Year: 2005 Journal:   arXiv (Cornell University) Pages: 434-441   Publisher: Cornell University

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.

Keywords:
Automatic summarization Computer science Biography Information retrieval Multi-document summarization Sentence Task (project management) Natural language processing Artificial intelligence Engineering Literature Art

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Topic Modeling
Physical Sciences →  Computer Science →  Artificial Intelligence
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Physical Sciences →  Computer Science →  Artificial Intelligence
Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
Life Sciences →  Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology →  Molecular Biology

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