Initial Summarisation RoadMap 2000, Timeline Figure 2

                                  Yr 1   Yr 2   Yr 3   Yr 4   Yr 5

Corpus development                ****   ****   ****   ****   ****

Evaluation software
  development                     ****   ****   ****   ****   ****

Extractive summary,
 intrinsic evaluation
- single document
  - simple genre                  ****   ****   ****
  - sophisticated genre                         ****   ****   ****

- multiple document
  - single genre, language        ****   ****   ****
  - evolving                             (**)   ****
  - multiple genres, languages                         ****   ****

Abstract summaries,
 intrinsic evaluation
- single document
  - simple genre                  ****   ****   ****
  - sophisticated genre                         ****   ****   ****

- multiple document
  - single genre, language        ****   ****   ****
  - evolving                             (**)   ****
  - multiple genres, languages                         ****   ****

Abstract, multidoc summaries,
 extrinsic evaluation
- TDT-specific evaluation                       ****   ****

 question answering
- single question                               (**)   ****
-multiple questions, single lang                       (**)   ****
-multiple questions, languages                                ****

    (**) = preparation/pilot

Features - modular, incremental

         progress from simpler    -> harder data
                       easier     -> more demanding tasks
                       intrinsic  -> extrinsic evaluation