CLASSY 2007 at DUC 2007

The IDA/CCS summarization system, CLASSY (Clustering, Linguistics, And Statistics for Summarization Yield), was enhanced in several areas for this year’s DUC. Our sentence splitting and trimming algorithms continue to be improved. Signature terms were improved by using the AQUAINT data as the background. Redundancy removal was also considerably improved employing LSI and a new variant of QR. We proposed a new way to determine paragraph breaks. In addition, a sub-cluster redundancy removal method was developed to tackle the update summary task. We summarize our results and analyze the relationship between ROUGE scores and responsiveness.