DUC: Document Understanding Conferences
From the website:
There is currently much interest and activity aimed at building powerful multi-purpose information systems. The agencies involved include DARPA, ARDA and NIST. Their programmes, for example DARPA’s TIDES (Translingual Information Detection Extraction and Summarization) programme, ARDA’s Advanced Question & Answering Program and NIST’s TREC (Text Retrieval Conferences) programme cover a range of subprogrammes. These focus on different tasks requiring their own evaluation designs.
Within TIDES and among other researchers interested in document understanding, a group grew up which has been focusing on summarization and the evaluation of summarization systems. Part of the initial evaluation for TIDES called for a workshop to be held in the fall of 2000 to explore different ways of summarizing a common set of documents. Additionally a road mapping effort was started in March of 2000 to lay plans for a long-term evaluation effort in summarization.
Data sets, papers, etc., on text summarization.
Yes, DUC has moved to Textual Analysis Conference (TAC) but what they don’t say is that the DUC data and papers for 2001 to 2007 are listed at this site only.
Something to remember when you are looking for text summarization data sets and research.
Questions:
- Select a paper from the 2007 DUC conference. Update on the status of that research. (3-5 pages, citations)
- For the authors of #1, annotated bibliography of publications since the paper in 2007.
- How would you use the technique from #1 in the construction of a topic map? Inform your understanding, selection, data for that map, etc.? (3-5 pages, no citations)