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October 10, 2005
DUC 2005 @ Vancouver, Canada
Conclusions:
A simple system features
Concept Link
: new way to calculate sentence
similarity;
n
no chunker/parser involved
n
concept differs from NPs in Lexical Chain
Considering sentence similarity/relatedness via
Concept Link:
n
Alleviate the influence of expression variations; (but
might involve inaccurate sense guess)
n
Outperforms Word co-occurrence approach
Minimizing Redundancy via
Modified MMR
;
No extra heuristics involved.
Document boundaries are ignored. (No sentence position)
No grammar needed: implies the system is far from understanding the content accuractly.