Hiwis Wanted

Building a corpus of heterogeneous documents for automatic summarization

2016-02-04 | Fachbereich Informatik | AIPHES | Maxime Peyrard, Markus Zopf | 1

Multi-document summarization: One Topic + Multiple Sources for Information

hockeycanada.ca twitter.com

facebook.com

Luc Bourdon urbandictionary.com

nhl.com

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What is important about Luc Bourdon?  Wikipedia will tell us

identifying information nuggets:

Joseph Luc Bourdon (February 16, 1987 - May 29, 2008) was a Canadian professional defenseman who played for the Canucks of the (NHL) and their (AHL) affiliate, the , from 2006 until 2008. After overcoming childhood arthritis, […]. Bourdon died at the age of 21 near his hometown of Shippagan, New Brunswick, when his motorcycle collided with a tractor trailer. Luc Bourdon… . was born on February 16, 1987 extracting information nuggets: . died on May 29, 2008 . was Canadian . was an ice hockey defenseman . played for the . died near Shippagan, New Brunswick . …

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We Need Help!

. to find source documents for information nuggets contained in Wikipedia articles

Joseph Luc Bourdon (February 16, 19871 - May 29, 20081) was a Canadian2 professional ice hockey defenseman3 who played for the Vancouver Canucks4 of the National Hockey League (NHL) and their American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Manitoba Moose, from 2006 until 20085. …

1 His Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/lucbourdon/ 2 Urban dictionary, “luc bourdon”: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=luc+bourdon 3 hockeyDB, player profile: http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/viewastext.php?94d9c659... 4 's National Team to Honour Bourdon, news: http://www.hockeycanada.ca/en-ca/news/2008... 5 Hockey’s Future, player profile: http://www.hockeysfuture.com/prospects/luc_bourdon/

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Task

1. Extract information nuggets from Wikipedia articles 2. Find heterogeneous sources on the Web that contain the information nuggets 3. Retrieve the documents along with some metadata and store it

. Requirements . intermediate skills in German and English . Nice-to-have . basic understanding in NLP (e.g. after having attended the FoLT/GIS lecture)

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Contact

. 3 months / 40 hours per month . flexible working hours . working at home possible

. Contact . Maxime Peyrard, Markus Zopf . {peyrard, zopf}@aiphes.tu-darmstadt.de . https://www.aiphes.tu-darmstadt.de

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