Using leading text for news summaries: evaluation results and implications for commercial summarization applications

  • Authors:
  • Mark Wasson

  • Affiliations:
  • LEXIS-NEXIS, a Division of Reed Elsevier plc, Miamisburg, Ohio

  • Venue:
  • COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Leading text extracts created to support some online Boolean retrieval goals are evaluated for their acceptability as news document summaries. Results are presented and discussed from the perspective of commercial summarization technology needs.