Update Summary Update.
Terry Copeck, Anna Kazantseva, Alistair Kennedy, Alex Kunadze, Diana Zaiu Inkpen, Stan Śzpakowicz · 2008
We submitted runs from two different systems for the update summary task at TAC 2008. One system used Roget’s Thesaurus to determine semantic relatedness for the purpose of summary construction. The other system employs a variety of heuristics, including an innovative use of the topic headline in the assessment of semantic similarity among sentences. Our submission to the opinion task used only the provided text snippets. Work continues here on a deeper semantic representation. We will also update the SCU-marked corpus with data from the 2008 conference.