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Kathleen R. McKeown
Researcher at Columbia University
Publications - 383
Citations - 20869
Kathleen R. McKeown is an academic researcher from Columbia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Automatic summarization & Natural language. The author has an hindex of 67, co-authored 355 publications receiving 19242 citations. Previous affiliations of Kathleen R. McKeown include New York University & Amazon.com.
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Building a Generation Knowledge Source using Internet-Accessible Newswire
TL;DR: ProFILE as discussed by the authors is a system that uses a client-server architecture to extract noun-phrase descriptions of entities such as people, places, and organizations, and uses them in a functional-unification based generation system.
A description of the CIDR system as used for TDT-2
TL;DR: Several experimental parameters and a parallelization technique used in the online document clustering system, CIDR, are described and preliminary quantitative results on the effects that these parameters have on speed and accuracy are reported.
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Using Focus to Generate Complex and Simple Sentences
TL;DR: The implementation uses tests on functional information such as focus of attention within the Prolog definite clause grammar formalism to determine when to use complex sentences, resulting in an efficient generator that has the same benefits as a functional grammar system.
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Facilitating physicians' access to information via tailored text summarization.
TL;DR: This study demonstrates that subjects do a better job on task completion with the personalized summary, and show a higher level of satisfaction, than under other conditions.
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Tailoring lexical choice to the user's vocabulary in multimedia explanation generation
TL;DR: This paper discusses the different strategies used in COMET (COordinated Multimedia Explanation Testbed) for selecting words with which the user is familiar and gives examples for each of these strategies.