@article {13713, title = {A sentence-trimming approach to multi-document summarization}, journal = {Proceedings of DUC2005}, year = {2005}, month = {2005///}, abstract = {We implemented an initial applicationof a sentence-trimming approach (Trim- mer) to the problem of multi-document summarization in the MSE2005 and DUC2005 tasks. Sentence trimming was incorporated into a feature-based summarization system, called Multi- Document Trimmer (MDT), by us- ing sentence trimming as both a pre- processing stage and a feature for sen- tence ranking. We demonstrate that we were able to port Trimmer easily to this new problem. Although the direct im- pact of sentence trimming was minimal compared to other features used in the system, the interaction of the other fea- tures resulted in trimmed sentences ac- counting for nearly half of the selected summary sentences. }, author = {Zajic, David and Dorr, Bonnie J and Jimmy Lin and Monz,C. and Schwartz,R.} }