Information fusion in the context of multi-document summarization

Authors:
Regina Barzilay;Kathleen R. McKeown;Michael Elhadad
Affiliations:
Columbia University, New York, NY;Columbia University, New York, NY;Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Venue:
ACL '99 Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Computational Linguistics
Year:
1999

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Abstract

We present a method to automatically generate a concise summary by identifying and synthesizing similar elements across related text from a set of multiple documents. Our approach is unique in its usage of language generation to reformulate the wording of the summary.