@inproceedings{lacatusu-etal-2004-multi,
    title = "Multi-Document Summarization Using Multiple-Sequence Alignment",
    author = "Lacatusu, V. Finley  and
      Maiorano, Steven J.  and
      Harabagiu, Sanda M.",
    editor = "Lino, Maria Teresa  and
      Xavier, Maria Francisca  and
      Ferreira, F{\'a}tima  and
      Costa, Rute  and
      Silva, Raquel",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}{'}04)",
    month = may,
    year = "2004",
    address = "Lisbon, Portugal",
    publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/L04-1236/",
    abstract = "This paper describes a novel clustering-based text summarization system that uses Multiple Sequence Alignment to improve the alignment of sentences within topic clusters. While most current clustering-based summarization systems base their summaries only on the common information contained in a collection of highly-related sentences, our system constructs more informative summaries that incorporate both the redundant and unique contributions of the sentences in the cluster. When evaluated using ROUGE, the summaries produced by our system represent a substantial improvement over the baseline, which is at 63{\%} of the human performance."
}