Success Stories: Yanjun Gao's paper got accepted in CoNLL 2019 !

A recent paper on pyramid summarization evaluation, "Automated Pyramid Summarization Evaluation " has appeared in CoNLL 2019, with Yanjun giving a presentation on Hongkong, Nov 3, 2019. This paper presents a new software package, PyrEval, to evaluate machine and human summarization and is proved to be accurate and efficient. You can find more information about this paper on github as well.

The pyramid method is known to be NP-complete and a challenging problem due to linguistic and content complexity. This work proposes a novel set partition algorithm that allocates clause-like units to summary content units, with two variants that generate equally good pyramids. 

PyrEval could be used in many scenarios, including educational applications (see BEA paper), multi-lingual summarization evaluation (a recent LREC paper has applied PyrEval in German text summarization evaluation, link will be released soon). 

This paper also received positive comments from online discussion! See link for a recent blog post that made comments on our work.  We welcome any use and collaboration with this work! 

We congratulate her and wish her to continue with even more success stories!