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Dear Colleagues, <br>
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we are happy to inform you that the first multilingual summary
evaluation data in seven languages is available for research and
evaluation purposes. You can download the set from <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/JRC_Resources.html">http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/JRC_Resources.html</a>
.<br>
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This dataset consists of a manually annotated collection of document
clusters of parallel texts in seven languages (Arabic, Czech,
English, French, German, Russian and Spanish) that can be used to
evaluate multi-document, or even single document, summarisation
software. The data is particularly useful to compare the performance
of software across languages.<br>
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The four document clusters consist of five high-level commentaries
each, selected from <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.project-syndicate.org/">http://www.project-syndicate.org/</a>,
discussing fields that can roughly be described as being about
malaria, Israel-and-Palestine-Conflict, genetics and
science-and-society. <br>
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The resource and its use are described in:<br>
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Marco Turchi, Josef Steinberger, Mijail Kabadjov and Ralf
Steinberger (2010)<br>
Using Parallel Corpora for Multilingual (Multi-document)
Summarisation Evaluation.<br>
<a title="Link to the Book Series of this Chapter" lang="en">Springer
Lecture Notes in Computer Science</a> (LNCS), Volume 6360/2010, <span
class="pagination">52-63.</span><br>
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We look forward to receiving any comments you may have,<br>
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Best Regards <br>
<br>
Marco Turchi, Josef Steinberger, Mijail Kabadjov and Ralf
Steinberger <br>
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