Generating Single and Multi-Document Summaries with GIST EXTER

This paper presents the techniques implemented in GISTEXTER for producing extracts and abstracts from both single and multiple documents. These techniques promote the belief that highly coherent summaries may be generated when using textual information identified by the Information Extraction technology. The results of GISTEXTER in the DUC-2002 evaluations account for the advantages of using the techniques presented in this paper.