@InProceedings{daume04fusion,
  author =       {Hal {Daum\'e III} and Daniel Marcu},
  title =        {Generic Sentence Fusion is an Ill-Defined Summarization Task},
  booktitle =    {Proceedings of the Text Summarization Branches Out Workshop at ACL},
  year =         {2004},
  address =      {Barcelona, Spain},
  month =        {July 25 -- 26},
  pages =        {},
  abstract =     {
    We report on a series of human evaluations of the task of sentence
    fusion.  In this task, a human is given two sentences and asked to
    produce a single coherent sentence that contains only the
    \emph{important} information from the original two.  Thus, this is a
    highly constrained summarization task.  Our investigations show that
    even at this restricted level, there is no measurable agreement
    between humans regarding what information should be considered
    important.  We further investigate the ability of separate
    evaluators to assess summaries, and find similarly disturbing lack
    of agreement.
  },
  url = {http://pub.hal3.name/#daume04fusion}
}