Hedge Trimmer: A Parse-and-Trim Approach to Headline Generation (2007)
Dorr, Bonnie, Zajic, David, Schwartz, Richard
This paper presents Hedge Trimmer a HEaDline GEneration system that creates a headline for a newspaper story using linguistically-motivated heuristics to guide the choice of a potential headline. We...
Multiple alternative sentence compressions for automatic text summarization (2007)
Nitin Madnani, David Zajic, Bonnie Dorr, Necip Fazil Ayan, Jimmy Lin
We perform multi-document summarization by generating compressed versions of source sentences as summary candidates and using weighted features of these candidates to construct summaries. We combine...
Multi-candidate reduction: Sentence compression as a tool for document summarization tasks (2007)
David Zajic, Bonnie J. Dorr, Jimmy Lin, Richard Schwartz
This article examines the application of two single-document sentence compression techniques to the problem of multi-document summarization—a “parse-and-trim ” approach and a statistical...
Multiple alternative sentence compressions for automatic text summarization (2007)
Nitin Madnani, David Zajic, Bonnie Dorr, Necip Fazil Ayan, Jimmy Lin
We perform multi-document summarization by generating compressed versions of source sentences as summary candidates and using weighted features of these candidates to construct summaries. We combine...
Headline Generation for Written and Broadcast News (2006)
Zajic, David, Dorr, Bonnie, Schwartz, Richard
This technical report is an overview of work done on Headline Generation for written and broadcast news. The report covers HMM Hedge, a statistical approach based on the noisy channel model, Hedge...
A sentence-trimming approach to multidocument summarization (2005)
David Zajic, Bonnie Dorr, Jimmy Lin, Christof Monz
We implemented an initial application of a sentence-trimming approach (Trimmer) to the problem of multi-document summarization in the MSE2005 and DUC2005 tasks. Sentence trimming was incorporated...
A sentence-trimming approach to multidocument summarization (2005)
David Zajic, Bonnie Dorr, Jimmy Lin, Christof Monz
We implemented an initial application of a sentence-trimming approach (Trimmer) to the problem of multi-document summarization in the MSE2005 and DUC2005 tasks. Sentence trimming was incorporated...
A Methodology for Extrinsic Evaluation of Text Summarization: Does ROUGE Correlate? (2005)
Bonnie Dorr, Christof Monz, Stacy President, Richard Schwartz, David Zajic
This paper demonstrates the usefulness of summaries in an extrinsic task of relevance judgment based on a new method for measuring agreement, Relevance-Prediction, which compares subjects '...
Headline generation for written and broadcast news, lamp-tr-120, cs-tr-4698 (2005)
David Zajic, Bonnie Dorr, Richard Schwartz
This technical report is an overview of work done on Headline Generation for written and broadcast news. The report covers HMM Hedge, a statistical approach based on the noisy channel model, Hedge...
Extrinsic Evaluation of Automatic Metrics for Summarization (2004)
Bonnie Dorr, Christof Monz, Douglas Oard, Stacy President, David Zajic, Richard Schwartz
This paper describes extrinsic-task evaluation of summarization. We show that it is possible to save time using summaries for relevance assessment without adversely impacting the degree of accuracy...
Hedge Trimmer: A Parse-and-Trim Approach to Headline Generation (2003)
Bonnie Dorr David, David Zajic
This paper presents Hedge Trimmer, a HEaDline GEneration system that creates a headline for a newspaper story using linguistically-motivated heuristics to guide the choice of a potential headline. We...
iCLEF 2003 at Maryland: (2003)
Translation Selection And, Bonnie Dorr, Jianqiang Wang, David Zajic
Maryland performed two sets of experiments for the 2003 Cross-Language Evaluation Forum's interactive track, one focused on interactive selection of appropriate translations for query terms, the...
Automatic headline generation for newspaper stories (2002)
David Zajic, Bonnie Dorr, Richard Schwartz Bbn
Abstract: In this paper we propose a novel
Extrinsic Evaluation of Automatic Metrics for Summarization (1998)
Dorr, Bonnie, Monz, Christof, Oard, Douglas, President, Stacy, Zajic, David, Schwartz, Richard
This paper describes extrinsic-task evaluation of summarization. We show that it is possible to save time using summaries for relevance assessment without adversely impacting the degree of accuracy...