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Overview of the NLPCC-ICCPOL 2016 Shared Task: Sports News Generation from Live Webcast Scripts

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Natural Language Understanding and Intelligent Applications (ICCPOL 2016, NLPCC 2016)

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Live webcast scripts are valuable resources for describing the process of sports games. This shared task aims to automatically generate sports news articles from live webcast scripts. The task can be considered a special case of single document summarization. In this overview paper, we will introduce the task, the evaluation dataset, the participating teams and the evaluation results. The dataset has been released publicly.

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Notes

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    http://sports.sina.com.cn.

  2. 2.

    http://sports.163.com/.

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    The ROUGE toolkit can be downloaded from http://www.berouge.com.

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    http://www.icst.pku.edu.cn/lcwm/wanxj/files/NLPCC2016Eval-Task5-AllData.rar.

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  1. Zhang, J., Yao, J., Wan, X.: Toward constructing sports news from live text commentary. In: Proceedings of ACL (2016)

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by National Hi-Tech Research and Development Program (863 Program) of China (2015AA015403) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (61331011).

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  1. Institute of Computer Science and Technology, The MOE Key Laboratory of Computational Linguistics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Xiaojun Wan, Jianmin Zhang, Jin-ge Yao & Tianming Wang

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Wan, X., Zhang, J., Yao, Jg., Wang, T. (2016). Overview of the NLPCC-ICCPOL 2016 Shared Task: Sports News Generation from Live Webcast Scripts. In: Lin, CY., Xue, N., Zhao, D., Huang, X., Feng, Y. (eds) Natural Language Understanding and Intelligent Applications. ICCPOL NLPCC 2016 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10102. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50496-4_80

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