@article {13881, title = {Umd/bbn at mse2005}, journal = {Proceedings of the MSE2005 track of the Association for Computational Linguistics Workshop on Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation Meatures for MT and/or Summarization, Ann Arbor, MI}, 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 task. Sentence trimming was incorporated into a feature-based summarization sys- tem, called Multi-Document Trimmer (MDT), by using sentence trimming as both a pre-processing stage and a fea- ture for sentence ranking. We demon- strate that we were able to port Trimmer easily to this new problem, although the impact of sentence trimming was min- imal compared to other features used in the system. The performance of our sys- tem in the official MSE2005 task was around the middle of the pack (16 out of 27). After some minor bug fixes and a simple correction (dateline removal) we obtained an improvement on a post-hoc run on the test data. }, author = {Zajic, David and Dorr, Bonnie J and Jimmy Lin and Schwartz,R.} }