Can you summarize this? Identifying correlates of input difficulty for generic multi-document summarization

ACL-08: HLT - 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 825-833

  Nenkova, Ani ^a   Louis, Annie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

HIGHLY-CORRELATED; MULTI-DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84859899789     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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