TY - CONF T1 - Using citations to generate surveys of scientific paradigms T2 - Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Y1 - 2009 A1 - Mohammad,Saif A1 - Dorr, Bonnie J A1 - Egan,Melissa A1 - Hassan,Ahmed A1 - Muthukrishan,Pradeep A1 - Qazvinian,Vahed A1 - Radev,Dragomir A1 - Zajic, David AB - The number of research publications in various disciplines is growing exponentially. Researchers and scientists are increasingly finding themselves in the position of having to quickly understand large amounts of technical material. In this paper we present the first steps in producing an automatically generated, readily consumable, technical survey. Specifically we explore the combination of citation information and summarization techniques. Even though prior work (Teufel et al., 2006) argues that citation text is unsuitable for summarization, we show that in the framework of multi-document survey creation, citation texts can play a crucial role. JA - Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics T3 - NAACL '09 PB - Association for Computational Linguistics CY - Stroudsburg, PA, USA SN - 978-1-932432-41-1 UR - http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1620754.1620839 ER -