Performance of a Three-Stage System for Multi-Document Summarization

Abstract

Our participation in DUC 2003 was limited to Tasks 2, 3, and 4. Although the tasks differed slightly in their goals, we applied the same approach in each case: pre-process the data for input to our system, apply our single-document and multi-document summarization algorithms,\ud post-process the data for DUC evaluation. We\ud did not use the topic descriptions for Task 2 or the viewpoint\ud descriptions for Task 3, and used only the novel\ud sentences for Task 4