Research Papers related to NewsBlaster

• System Overview / Evaluation
  • Human Languages and Technology 2002 NewsBlaster Paper. This paper deals with the overall NewsBlaster system, and an evaluation we performed.
• Clustering
  • An Investigation of Linguistic Features and Clustering Algorithms for Topical Document Clustering in Proc. of the 23rd ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'00), 2000.
• Summarization
  • Inferring Strategies for Sentence Ordering in Multidocument News Summarization. Regina Barzilay, Noemie Elhadad, Kathy McKeown in Journal of Artifical Intelligence Research (JAIR), 2002, Vol. 17, pp 35-55.
  • Experiments in Multidocument Summarization The HLT 2002 paper describing the DEMS summarizer
  • SimFinder: A Flexible Clustering Tool for Summarization From the North American Association of Computational Linguistics '01 Automatic Summarization Workshop.
  • Columbia Multi-document Summarization: Approach and Evaluation Document Understanding Conference '01. Description of the overall summarization system (the system has undergone changes since this publication.)
  • Producing Biographical Summaries: Combining Linguistic Knowledge with Corpus Statistics ACL-EACL'01.
  • Towards Multidocument Summarization by Reformulation: Progress and Prospects AAAI'99.
  • Information Fusion in the Context of Multi-Document Summarization ACL'99
• Categorization
  • Using Bins to Empirically Estimate Term Weights for Text Categorization EMNLP'01. Discusses the text categorization technique used for categorizing the articles into the general categories.