| Date
| Topics
| Readings
| Assignment
out
| Slides
|
| Week 1: March 28, March 30
| Summarization: Intro
Course Structure
Overview
| J&M 23.3-; [Sparck Jones, 2007]
|
Deliverable #1 out:
Due April 4, 23:45
| Intro
Overview
|
| Week 2: April 4, 6
| Evaluation
Exemplar Systems
| [Nenkova et al, 2007]; [Radev et al., 2000]
[Erkan & Radev, 2004]
| Deliverable #2 out: Due April 23
| Evaluation & Topic Models
Mead, LexRank, D2
|
| Week 3: April 11, 13
| Content selection by
Classification, HMMs, and Discourse
| [Conroy et al. 2004]
[Conroy et al, 2001]
[Hong & Nenkova, 2014];[Louis et al., 2010]
|
| Graphs & Supervision
Discourse
|
| Week 4: April 18, 20
| Discourse, Topic Orientation
& Information Ordering
| Otterbacher et al, 2005; Schilder et al, 2008 ; Barzilay et al, 2002
| Deliverable #3 out: Due May 14
| Topic, Optimization
LSI
Ordering
|
| Week 5: April 25, 27
| Deliverable #2 Presentations
|
|
| Tuesday
Thursday
|
| Week 6: May 2, 4
| Information Ordering
| Bollegala et al., 2012;Barzilay and Lapata, 2005, 2008
Barzilay and Lee, 2004;Conroy et al, 2006
|
| Ordering
Entity/Topic Order |
| Week 7: May 9, 11
| Content Realization
| Zajic et al., 2007; Vanderwende et al, 2007.;Nenkova, 2008;Wang et al., 2013
Siddarthan et al., 2011 |
Deliverable #4 out: Due May 28
| Content Realization
Comp. & Quality |
| Week 8: May 16, 18
| Deliverable #3 Presentations
|
|
| Tuesday slides
Thursday slides
|
| Week 9: May 23, 25
| Alternate Views of Summarization
| Liu et al, 2015
Hu and Liu, 2004; Lerman & McDonald, 2009;
Maskey & Hirschberg, 2006
|
| Compression & Alternative
perspectives
Abstraction, Reviews, Speech |
| Week 10: May 30, June 1
| Final presentations
|
|
| Overview
Tuesday merged
Thursday merged |