NAACL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
We treat the text summarization problem as maximizing a submodular function under a budget constraint. We show, both theoretically and empirically, a modified greedy algorithm can...
SODA
2010
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
2010
ACM
Consider the following problem: given a metric space, some of whose points are "clients," select a set of at most k facility locations to minimize the average distance f...
STOC
2009
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
2009
ACM
Submodular function maximization is a central problem in combinatorial optimization, generalizing many important problems including Max Cut in directed/undirected graphs and in hy...