The 2019 BBN Cross-lingual Information Retrieval System

no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Le Zhang, Damianos Karakos, William Hartmann, Manaj Srivastava, Lee Tarlin, David Akodes, Sanjay Krishna Gouda, Numra Bathool, Lingjun Zhao, Zhuolin Jiang, Richard Schwartz, John Makhoul

In this paper, we describe a cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) system that, given a query in English, and a set of audio and text documents in a foreign language, can return a scored list of relevant documents, and present findings in a summary form in English.

Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval Machine Translation +4

Combining Word Embeddings and N-grams for Unsupervised Document Summarization

no code implementations • 25 Apr 2020 • Zhuolin Jiang, Manaj Srivastava, Sanjay Krishna, David Akodes, Richard Schwartz

An improved sentence similarity graph is built and used in a submodular objective function for extractive summarization, which consists of a weighted coverage term and a diversity term.

Document Summarization Extractive Document Summarization +9