Generating baseball summaries from multiple perspectives by reordering content

  • Authors:
  • Alice Oh;Howard Shrobe

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT CSAIL, Cambridge, MA;MIT CSAIL, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • INLG '08 Proceedings of the Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper presents a reordering algorithm for generating multiple stories from different perspectives based on a single baseball game. We take a description of a game and a neutral summary, reorder the content of the neutral summary based on event features, and produce two summaries that the users rated as showing perspectives of each of the two teams. We describe the results from an initial user survey that revealed the power of reordering on the users' perception of perspective. Then we describe our reordering algorithm which was derived from analyzing the corpus of local newspaper articles of teams involved in the games as well as a neutral corpus for the respective games. The resulting reordering algorithm is successful at turning a neutral article into two different summary articles that express the two teams' perspectives.