Multi-Document Biography Summarization

In this paper we describe a biography summarization system using sentence classification and ideas from information retrieval. Although the individual techniques are not new, assembling and applying them to generate multi-document biographies is new. Our system was evaluated in DUC2004. It is among the top performers in task 5

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: EMNLP
• Authors: Liang Zhou, Miruna Ticrea, Eduard H. Hovy
• Keywords: Biography Summarization, EMNLP 2004, EMNLP 2007, Sentence Classification, Task 5­short Summaries