In the last few years, a large number of automatic evaluation metrics have been proposed for
evaluating Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems. The rapid development and …

It has now been 50 years since the publication of Luhn's seminal paper on automatic
summarization. During these years the practical need for automatic summarization has …

When I planned this book in 1999, it was intended to be a survey of current work in text
summarization. The survey would discuss various efforts in the context of a framework for …

As the amount of on-line information increases, systems that can automatically summarize
one or more documents become increasingly desirable. Recent research has investigated …

In this article we propose a strategy for the summarization of scientific articles that
concentrates on the rhetorical status of statements in an article: Material for summaries is …

When humans produce summaries of documents, they do not simply extract sentences and
concatenate them. Rather, they create new sentences that are grammatical, that cohere with …

A system that can produce informative summaries, highlighting common information found in
many online documents, will help Web users to pinpoint information that they need without …

When humans produce summaries of documents, they do not simply extract sentences and
concatenate them. Rather, they create new sentences that are grammatical, that cohere with …

Sentence compression holds promise for many applications ranging from summarization to
subtitle generation. Our work views sentence compression as an optimization problem and …

Extractive summarization techniques cannot generate document summaries shorter than a
single sentence, something that is often required. An ideal summarization system would …