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<Paper uid="W03-1101">
  <Title>Improving Summarization Performance by Sentence Compression - A Pilot Study</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper we study the effectiveness of applying sentence compression on an extraction based multi-document summarization system. Our results show that pure syntactic-based compression does not improve system performance. Topic signature-based reranking of compressed sentences does not help much either.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> However reranking using an oracle showed a significant improvement remains possible.</Paragraph>
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