Much existing research on blogs focused on posts only, ignoring their comments. Our user study conducted on summarizing blog posts, however, showed that reading comments does chan...
Extractive multi-document summarization is the task of choosing sentences from a set of documents to compose a summary text in response to a user query. We propose a generative ap...
An ideal summarization system should produce summaries that have high content coverage and linguistic quality. Many state-ofthe-art summarization systems focus on content coverage...
The problem of organizing information for multidocument summarization so that the generated summary is coherent has received relatively little attention. While sentence ordering f...
We argue that in general, the analysis of lexical cohesion factors in a document can drive a summarizer, as well as enable other content characterization tasks. More narrowly, thi...