This is the first message to the MEAD mailing list.
The first beta release of MEAD is almost ready and should be available
on the Web (http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/ws2001/groups/asmd/) within the
next 5-6 days. I am sending this preliminary message to all people
involved in MEAD.
Here are a few notes:
1. The version being released may contain bugs. These will be fixed in
future releases with your help. Please send any bug reports to
mead-dev@majordomo.si.umich.edu (that is the mailing list for the
developers/porters/documenters of MEAD).
2. There are several ways in which you can use MEAD. Here are some of
them:
- Use MEAD on your own documents
- Use MEAD on the Hong Kong news corpus
- Test a summarization feature
- Build a summarizer from scratch
- Evaluate an existing summarizer
- Test a new evaluation metric
The documentation (to be released early next week) will explain
what you need to do in any of these cases.
Note that the HKNEWS related parts of MEAD are not publicly
distributable. More on this later.
3. CREDITS:
Dragomir Radev - MEAD 1.0
Sasha Blair-Goldensohn - MEAD 2.0
John Blitzer, Elliott Drabek, Arda Celebi, Hong Qi, Dragomir Radev,
Simone Teufel, Horacio Saggion, Wai Lam, Danyu Liu, Sanjeev
Khudanpur - MEAD 3.0
Inderjeet Mani, Chin-Yew Lin - project affiliates
Mike Topper - documentation and porting
Arda Celebi - Web site and distribution
Fred Jelinek, Bill Byrne, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Laura Graham, Jacob
Laderman - hosts of the summer workshop at Johns Hopkins where MEAD
3.0 was developed
Stephanie Strassel, Chris Cieri, David Graff (all from LDC) -
corpus creation and annotation
Ralph Weischedel, Regina Barzilay, David Day, Greg Silber, Dan
Melamed, Sean Boisen - miscellaneous advice and resources
+ many more people - I will add their names to the official credits
page on the Web site later
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