UMIACS Computational Linguistics Colloquium

April 7, 2004, AVW Room 2120

In this talk, we will describe a method for automatic multi-document summarization that is based upon a statistical and linear algebraic method, as well as linguistic methods for removing parts of sentences which are deemed to be less interesting for a summary. The method performed exceptionally well in the most recent evaluation as part of the Document Understanding Conference.

About the Speaker:

John Conroy graduated in 1980 from St. Joseph's University with a B.S. in Mathematics. He earned a Ph. D. in Applied Mathematics under the direction of Dianne O'Leary from the University of Maryland in 1986. Since that time John has worked at the IDA Center for Computing Sciences working on a variety of Mathematical modeling and linear algebraic problems.

For the colloquium series schedule, see the UMD Computational http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/research/CLIP/colloq/. If you are interested in meeting with the speaker, please contact Doug <http://www.glue.umd.edu/~oard/> Oard (oard@umiacs.umd.edu <mailto:oard@umiacs.umd.edu> ).