%0 Journal Article %J Proceedings of HLT-NAACL %D 2009 %T Generating surveys of scientific paradigms %A Mohammad,S. %A Dorr, Bonnie J %A Egan,M. %A Hassan,A. %A Muthukrishan,P. %A Qazvinian,V. %A Radev,D. %A Zajic, David %X The number of research publications in var-ious disciplines is growing exponentially. Researchers and scientists are increasingly finding themselves in the position of having to quickly understand large amounts of tech- nical material. In this paper we present the first steps in producing an automatically gen- erated, readily consumable, technical survey. Specifically we explore the combination of citation information and summarization tech- niques. Even though prior work (Teufel et al., 2006) argues that citation text is unsuitable for summarization, we show that in the frame- work of multi-document survey creation, cita- tion texts can play a crucial role. %B Proceedings of HLT-NAACL %8 2009/// %G eng