Re: MEAD not working

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Date: Sun Oct 27 2002 - 17:47:14 EST


Hi, Tristan,

I sent you email a few days ago about the new release of MEAD. Please
let me know if your problems persist.

Drago

Tristan Miller wrote:
>
> Greetings.
>
> We met briefly at ACL'02 during the summarization workshop. I'm currently
> developing an automatic summarization system and wish to compare its
> output with that some other well-known systems, such as your MEAD.
>
> I downloaded the latest version of MEAD (3.06) from the project web page,
> but unfortunately it does not compile out of the box for me. I'm running
> Solaris and Perl 5.8.0, as suggested by the documentation, but the install
> script gives me a number of errors. It appears that in some places the
> script is expecting the Perl libraries to be in certain locations, and may
> be ignoring the PERLLIB environment variable. In other cases, it appears
> to be trying to overwrite files which were set as read-only. I can send
> you the installer output if you would like.
>
> Instead of running a local copy, I decided to use the web interface at
> http://www.newsinessence.com/clair/meaddemo/demo.cgi, but unfortunately
> this crashes with an Internal Server Error whenever the "summarize
> documents" button is pressed.
>
> I would be grateful if you could suggest any quick fixes to these
> problems, or let me know if there is some other interface to MEAD I could
> use.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> --
> \\\ Tristan Miller
> \\\ Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
> \\\ http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~psy/
>

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Dragomir R. Radev                                         radev@umich.edu
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