Automatic Headline Generation for Newspaper Stories
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In this paper we propose a novel application of Hidden Markov Models to automatic generation of informative headlines for English texts. We propose four decoding parameters to make the headlines appear more like Headlinese, the language of informative newspaper headlines. We also allow for morphological variation in words between headline and story English. Informal and formal evaluations indicate that our approach produces informative headlines, mimicking a Headlinese style generated by humans.
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