Multilingual Multidocument Summarization Tools and Evaluation

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006)

Abstract

We describe a number of experiments carried out to address the problem of creating summaries from multiple sources in multiple languages. A centroid-based sentence extraction system has been developed which decides the content of the summary using texts in different languages and uses sentences from English sources alone to create the final output. We describe the evaluation of the system in the recent Multilingual Summarization Evaluation MSE 2005 using the pyramids and ROUGE methods.