Evaluating Summarisation Technologies: A Task Oriented Approach

This paper presents a novel task-oriented approach for the evaluation of automatic text summarisation systems. Evaluation of systems has traditionally been a troublesome area in summarisation research. We propose a scheme that evaluates three existing systems by determining their relative effectiveness in an interactive search task, under conditions that approximate the intended use of the systems.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: NDDL
• Authors: Paul McLellan, Anastasios Tombros, Joemon M. Jose, Iadh Ounis, Miles Whitehead
• Keywords: Digital Library, Interactive Search Task, NDDL 2001, Summarisation Research, Text Summarisation Systems