Hedge Trimmer: a parse-and-trim approach to headline generation

  • Authors:
  • Bonnie Dorr;David Zajic;Richard Schwartz

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Maryland;University of Maryland;BBN

  • Venue:
  • HLT-NAACL-DUC '03 Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 03 on Text summarization workshop - Volume 5
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper presents Hedge Trimmer, a HEaDline GEneration system that creates a headline for a newspaper story using linguistically-motivated heuristics to guide the choice of a potential headline. We present feasibility tests used to establish the validity of an approach that constructs a headline by selecting words in order from a story. In addition, we describe experimental results that demonstrate the effectiveness of our linguistically-motivated approach over a HMM-based model, using both human evaluation and automatic metrics for comparing the two approaches.