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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.

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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

(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

Document Understanding Workshop
June 8-9, 2006
New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn, New York USA

Presented at
HLT-NAACL 2006


(Note: Papers and slides are in .pdf format)

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



DUC 2005

Document Understanding Workshop
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)

Overview of DUC 2005 (.pdf)   Slides (.ps)
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


DUC 2004

Document Understanding Workshop
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


Workshop on Text Summarization
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)

An Introduction to DUC 2003
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




DUC 2002

Workshop on Text Summarization
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)

Introduction to DUC: An Intrinsic Evaluation of Generic News Text Summarization Systems
(.ppt)     (.pdf)
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





DUC 2001
Workshop on Text Summarization
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)

A Clustering Based Approach to Creating Multi-Document Summaries
(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


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