NDLI: Do Summaries Help ? A Task-Based Evaluation of Multi-Document Summarization

Please wait, while we are loading the content...

Do Summaries Help ? A Task-Based Evaluation of Multi-Document Summarization

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	McKeown, Kathleen Passonneau, Rebecca J. Nenkova, Ani Hirschberg, Julia
Copyright Year	2005
Abstract	We describe a task-based evaluation to determine whether multi-document summaries measurably improve user performance when using online news browsing systems for directed research. We evaluated the multi-document summaries generated by Newsblaster, a robust news browsing system that clusters online news articles and summarizes multiple articles on each event. Four groups of subjects were asked to perform the same time-restricted fact-gathering tasks, reading news under different conditions: no summaries at all, single sentence summaries drawn from one of the articles, Newsblaster multi-document summaries, and human summaries. Our results show that, in comparison to source documents only, the quality of reports assembled using Newsblaster summaries was significantly better and user satisfaction was higher with both Newsblaster and human summaries.
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~delson/pubs/f98-mckeown.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www.cs.columbia.edu/nlp/papers/2005/mckeown_al_05b.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~becky/pubs/f98-mckeown-sigir05.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ani/papers/f98-mckeown.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~delson/pubs/f98-mckeown.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www.cs.columbia.edu/nlp/papers/2005/mckeown_al_05.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/nlp/papers/2005/mckeown_al_05b.pdf
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Automatic summarization Multi-document summarization Numerous
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

Central Library (ISO-9001:2015 Certified)
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Kharagpur, West Bengal, India | PIN - 721302

See location in the Map
03222 282435
Mail: support@ndl.gov.in

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in