Presentations (Communicative Events)

From Definitions to Complex Topics: Columbia University at DUC 2005

Blair-Goldensohn, Sasha

We describe our approach for the DUC 2005 topic-focused summarization task by adapting a system initially designed to answer only definitional and biographical questions (i.e. “What/Who is X?”). We present a system overview, focusing on new adaptations and developments. We evaluate our performance and propose a novel combined metric that sythesizes a single score from the various metrics provided by NIST. We conclude with general observations about this year’s task and the direction of future work at Columbia.

Files

More About This Work

Academic Units
Computer Science
Publisher
Proceedings of the 5th Document Understanding Conference (DUC2005)
Published Here
May 31, 2013