Hedge Trimmer: A Parse-and-Trim Approach to Headline Generation
Abstract
This paper presents Hedge Trimmer a HEaDline GEneration system that creates a headline for a newspaper story using linguistically-motivated heuristics to guide the choice of a potential headline. We present feasibility tests used to establish the validity of an approach that constructs a headline by selecting words in order from a story. In addition we describe experimental results that demonstrate the effectiveness of our linguistically-motivated approach over a HMM-based model using both human evaluation and automatic metrics for comparing the two approaches.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2003
- Accession Number
- ADA460929
Entities
People
- Bonnie J. Dorr
- David Zajic
- Richard Schwartz
Organizations
- University of Maryland