Ani Nenkova

Graduate Student, ani@cs.columbia.edu

Title: Improving the Coherence of Multi-Document Summaries: A Corpus Study for Modeling the Syntactic Realization of Entities

Time: Thursday January 23, 12noon - 1pm

Place: CS Conference Room in MUDD

Abstract:

References included in multi-document summaries are often problematic. In this paper, we present a corpus study performed to derive statistical models for the syntactic realization of referential expressions. Our work shows how the syntactic realization of entities can influence the coherence of the text and provides a model for rewriting references in multi-document summaries to smooth disfluencies.