@inproceedings{gholipour-ghalandari-2017-revisiting,
    title = "Revisiting the Centroid-based Method: A Strong Baseline for Multi-Document Summarization",
    author = "Gholipour Ghalandari, Demian",
    editor = "Wang, Lu  and
      Cheung, Jackie Chi Kit  and
      Carenini, Giuseppe  and
      Liu, Fei",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop on New Frontiers in Summarization",
    month = sep,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Copenhagen, Denmark",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/iwcs-25-ingestion/W17-4511/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-4511",
    pages = "85--90",
    abstract = "The centroid-based model for extractive document summarization is a simple and fast baseline that ranks sentences based on their similarity to a centroid vector. In this paper, we apply this ranking to possible summaries instead of sentences and use a simple greedy algorithm to find the best summary. Furthermore, we show possibilities to scale up to larger input document collections by selecting a small number of sentences from each document prior to constructing the summary. Experiments were done on the DUC2004 dataset for multi-document summarization. We observe a higher performance over the original model, on par with more complex state-of-the-art methods."
}