Improving summarization performance by sentence compression – A pilot study

Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages, IRAL 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-8

  Lin, Chin Yew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Sentence compression; Sentence extraction; Text summarization

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES;

EVALUATION; MULTI DOCUMENTS SUMMARIZATION; PERFORMANCE; PILOT STUDIES; RE-RANKING; SENTENCE COMPRESSION; SENTENCE EXTRACTION; SUMMARIZATION SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS PERFORMANCE; TEXT SUMMARISATION;

EXTRACTION;

EID: 85119419364     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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