In fact, when we use only the SVM regression model to rank the hypothesis sentences, without employing any classifier, then remove redundant sentences, rewrite and trim the results, we find that, interestingly, this approach also outperforms top-DUC2004, although the difference is not statistically significant.
to evaluate our biography generation system, we use the document sets created for the biography evalua-  Figure 1: Comparing our approaches against the top performing system in DUC2004 according to ROUGE-L (diamond).