TY - RPRT T1 - Headline Generation for Written and Broadcast News Y1 - 2005 A1 - Zajic, David A1 - Dorr, Bonnie J A1 - Schwartz,Richard KW - *INFORMATION RETRIEVAL KW - *RADIO BROADCASTING KW - AUTOMATIC KW - AUTOMATIC SUMMARIZATION KW - HEDGE TRIMMER KW - INFORMATION SCIENCE KW - RADIO COMMUNICATIONS KW - STATISTICAL PROCESSES KW - TEST AND EVALUATION KW - WORDS(LANGUAGE) AB - This technical report is an overview of work done on Headline Generation for written and broadcast news. The report covers HMM Hedge, a statistical approach based on the noisy channel model, Hedge Trimmer, a parse-and-trim approach using linguistically motivated trimming rules, and Topiary, a combination of Trimmer and Unsupervised Topic Discovery. Automatic evaluation of summaries using ROUGE and BLEU is described and used to evaluate the Headline Generation systems. PB - Instititue for Advanced Computer Studies, Univ of Maryland, College Park UR - http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA454198 ER -