DUC 2006 Task

Multi-document, query focused summarization:
- 50 topics
- 25 relevant docs per topic
- Summary must be 250 words
- Three different sources of news stories (AP, NYT and Xinhua)
- Corpus has a DTD

Automated Evaluation:
- 4 human summaries per topic
- ROUGE-2 and ROUGE-SU4 with stemming and keeping stopwords (Jacknifing?)
- BE (Basic Element) scores between manual and human summaries. Summaries will be parsed with Minipar and BE-F will be extracted. These BEs will be matched using the Head-Modifier criterion.