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  <Title>Columbia Newsblaster: Multilingual News Summarization on the Web</Title>
  <Section position="6" start_page="0" end_page="0" type="evalu">
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5 Evaluation
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Evaluation of multi-document summarization is a difficult task; the Document Understanding Conference (DUC)2 is designed as an evaluation for multi-document summarization systems. We participated in the DUC 2004 conference submitting the results of the summarization system used in Newsblaster, as well as an in-progress system described in Section 4.1 for multilingual cluster summarization. The results of the DUC evaluation will provide us with valuable feedback on the multi-document multi-lingual summarization components in Newsblaster.</Paragraph>
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