Papers

• Human Languages and Technology 2002 NewsBlaster Paper, HLT 2002.
  K. McKeown, R. Barzilay, D. Evans, V. Hatzivassiloglou, J. Klavans, A. Nenkova, C. Sable, B. Schiffman, S. Sigelman
  
  
• Experiments in Multidocument Summarization, HLT 2002
  B. Schiffman, A. Nenkova, K. McKeown
  
  
• Inferring Strategies for Sentence Ordering in Multidocument News Summarization, 2002 to appear in Journal of Artifical Intelligence Research (JAIR).
  Regina Barzilay, Noemie Elhadad, Kathy McKeown
  
  
• SimFinder: A Flexible Clustering Tool for Summarization, NAACL 2001 in the North American Association of Computational Linguistics 2001 Automatic Summarization Workshop.
  V. Hatzivassiloglou, J. Klavans, M. Holcombe, R. Barzilay, M-Y Kan, K. McKeown
  
  
• Columbia Multi-document Summarization: Approach and Evaluation, DUC 2001 in Proceedings of the Document Understanding Conference 2001.
  K. McKeown, R. Barzilay, D. Evans, V. Hatzivassiloglou, B. Schiffman, S. Teufel
  
  
• Producing Biographical Summaries: Combining Linguistic Knowledge with Corpus Statistics, ACL-EACL 2001
  B. Schiffman, I. Mani, K. Concepcion
  
  
• Using Bins to Empirically Estimate Term Weights for Text Categorization, EMNLP 2001
  C. Sable, K. Church
  
  
• An Investigation of Linguistic Features and Clustering Alogrithms for Topical Document Clustering, SIGIR 2000 in Proc. of the 23rd ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'00), 2000
  V. Hatzivassiloglou, L. Gravano and Ankineedu Mangati.
  
  
• Cut and paste based text summarization, NAACL 2000 In the Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL'00). May, 2000
  Hongyan Jing and Kathleen McKeown.
  
  
• Sentence simplification in automatic text summarization, ANLP 2000 In the Proceedings of the 6th Applied Natural Language Processing Conference (ANLP'2000)
  Hongyan Jing.
  
  
• Towards Multidocument Summarization by Reformulation: Progress and Prospects, AAAI'99.
  K. McKeown, J. Klavans, V. Hatzivassiloglou, R. Barzilay, E. Eskin.
  
  
• Information Fusion in the Context of Multi-Document Summarization, ACL'99
  R. Barzilay, K. McKeown and M. Elhadad.
  
  
• Detecting Text Similarity over Short Passages: Exploring Linguistic Feature Combinations via Machine Learning, EMNLP'99
  V. Hatzivassiloglou, J. Klavans, and E. Eskin.
  
  
• Linear Segmentation and Segment Relevence, WVLC-6
  M. Kan, K. McKeown, and J. Klavans.
  
  
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