IIIT Hyderabad in Summarization and Knowledge Base Population at TAC 2011

Vasudeva Varma, Sudheer Kovelamudi, Arpit Sood, Jayant Gupta, Harshit Jain, Pattisapu Nikhil Priyatam, Aditya Mogadala, Srikanth Reddy Vaddepally
2011 Text Analysis Conference  
In this report, we present details about the participation of IIIT Hyderabad in Guided Summarization and Knowledge Base Population tracks at TAC 2011. we have enhanced our summarization system with knowledge based measures. Wikipedia based extraction methods and topic modelling are used to score sentences in guided summarization track. For multilingual summarization task, we investigated the HAL ( Hyperspace Analogue to Language Model) where we created a semantic space from word co-occurrences.
more » ... We show that the results obtained with this unsupervised language independent method are competitive with other state-of-the-art systems. For monolingual and multilingual entity linking task, we extended our previous year's model to a light weight language independent system without utilizing any other external knowledge or resource.
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