Experiments on Statistical and Pattern-Based Biographical Summarization

Horacio Saggion, Robert J. Gaizauskas

Abstract: We describe experiments on content selection for producing biographical summaries from multiple documents. The method relies on a set of patterns to identify descriptive phrases, an available co-reference resolution algorithm, and a greedy, corpus-based sentence deletion procedure for document compression. We show that in an automatic evaluation of content using ROUGE, the proposed method obtains very good performance.