Producing biographical summaries: combining linguistic knowledge with corpus statistics

  • Authors:
  • Barry Schiffman;Inderjeet Mani;Kristian J. Concepcion

  • Affiliations:
  • Columbia University, New York, NY;The MITRE Corporation, Reston, VA;The MITRE Corporation, Reston, VA

  • Venue:
  • ACL '01 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We describe a biographical multi-document summarizer that summarizes information about people described in the news. The summarizer uses corpus statistics along with linguistic knowledge to select and merge descriptions of people from a document collection, removing redundant descriptions. The summarization components have been extensively evaluated for coherence, accuracy, and non-redundancy of the descriptions produced.