TY - JOUR T1 - A sentence-trimming approach to multi-document summarization JF - Proceedings of DUC2005 Y1 - 2005 A1 - Zajic, David A1 - Dorr, Bonnie J A1 - Jimmy Lin A1 - Monz,C. A1 - Schwartz,R. AB - 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. ER -