Most baselines contained a sentence fragment

• Single-document summaries:

  • Take the first 100 words in the document
    • 91.7% of these summaries ended with a sentence fragment.

• Multi-document summaries

  • Take the first 50, 100, 200, 400 words in the most recent document.
    • 87.5% of these summaries ended with a sentence fragment.
  • Take the first sentence in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd,… document in chronological sequence until you have the target summary size. Truncate the last sentence if target size is exceeded.
    • 69.2 % of these summaries ended with a sentence fragment.

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