LCC's GISTexter at DUC 2007: Machine Reading for Update Summarization

In this paper, we describe Language Computer Corporation’s GISTEXTER question-focused and update-based multidocument summarization (MDS) systems. We show that by using a machine reading (MR) framework in order to construct representations of the knowledge inferable from a text collection, we were able to create coherent sets of iupdatei summaries that were likely to contain inewi information that could not be inferred from any previously considered document. Details of our DUC 2007 Main Task submission are provided as well.

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