Producing Biographical Summaries: Combining Linguistic Knowledge with Corpus Statistics

We describe a biographical multidocument summarizer that summarizes information about people described in the news. The summarizer uses corpus statistics along with linguistic knowledge to select and merge descriptions of people from a document collection, removing redundant descriptions. The summarization components have been extensively evaluated for coherence, accuracy, and non-redundancy of the descriptions produced.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Barry Schiffman, Inderjeet Mani, Kristian J. Concepcion
• Keywords: ACL 2001, ACL 2007, Biographical Multidocument Summarizer, Linguistic Knowledge, Redundant Descriptions