DUC 2006 Responsiveness Assessment ---------------------------------- You have been given a topic statement and a number of summaries that are supposed to contribute toward satisfying the information need expressed in the topic statement. Some of the summaries may be more responsive to the topic than others. Your task is to help us understand how relatively well each summary responds to the topic. Read the topic statement and all the associated summaries. Then score each summary according to how responsive it is to the topic. 1. Very Poor 2. Poor 3. Barely Acceptable 4. Good 5. Very Good Responsiveness should be measured primarily in terms of the AMOUNT OF INFORMATION in the summary that actually helps to satisfy the information need expressed in the topic statement. The linguistic quality of the summary should play only an indirect role in your judgment, insofar as poor linguistic quality interferes with the expression of information and reduces the amount of information that is conveyed.