Generating Update Summaries with Spreading Activation.
Vivi Năstase, Katja Filippova, Simone Paolo Ponzetto · MADOC (University of Mannheim) · 2008
For the update summaries task of the Text Analysis Conference 2008 we have implemented a novel summarization technique based on query expansion with encyclopedic knowledge and activation spreading in a large document graph.We have also experimented with sentence compression for building the summaries.The results are average -ranked 27 out of 58 for responsiveness in manual evaluation -but we find the approach promising.