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A Web-based Framework for Collecting and Assessing Highlighted Sentences in a Document

Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING): System Demonstrations

Publication date: August 25, 2018

Sasha Spala, Franck Dernoncourt, Walter Chang, Carl Dockhorn

Automatically highlighting a text aims at identifying key portions that are the most important to a reader. In this paper, we present a web-based framework 1 designed to efficiently and scalably crowdsource two independent but related tasks: collecting highlight annotations, and comparing the performance of automated highlighting systems. The first task is necessary to understand human preferences and train supervised automated highlighting systems. The second task yields a more accurate and fine-grained evaluation than existing automated performance metrics.

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