Finley Lacatusu

Also published as: V. Finley Lacatusu


2015

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Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations
Matt Gerber | Catherine Havasi | Finley Lacatusu
Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations

2006

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Impact of Question Decomposition on the Quality of Answer Summaries
Finley Lacatusu | Andrew Hickl | Sanda Harabagiu
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06)

Generating answers to complex questions in the form of multi-document summaries requires access to question decomposition methods. In this paper we present three methods for decomposing complex questions and we evaluate their impact on the responsiveness of the answers they enable.

2004

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Multi-Document Summarization Using Multiple-Sequence Alignment
V. Finley Lacatusu | Steven J. Maiorano | Sanda M. Harabagiu
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’04)

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.

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Strategies for Advanced Question Answering
Sanda Harabagiu | Finley Lacatusu
Proceedings of the Workshop on Pragmatics of Question Answering at HLT-NAACL 2004

2002

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Multidocument Summarization with GISTexter
Sanda Harabagiu | Finley Lacatusu | Paul Morarescu
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’02)