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  <Title>Multi-document Biography Summarization</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper we describe a biography summarization system using sentence classification and ideas from information retrieval. Although the individual techniques are not new, assembling and applying them to generate multi-document biographies is new.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Our system was evaluated in DUC2004. It is among the top performers in task 5-short summaries focused by person questions.</Paragraph>
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