Resources for Evaluation of Summarization Techniques
  We report on two corpora to be used in the evaluation of component systems for the tasks of (1) linear segmentation of text and (2) summary-directed sentence extraction. We present characteristics of the corpora, methods used in the collection of user judgments, and an overview of the application of the corpora to evaluating the component system. Finally, we discuss the problems and issues with construction of the test set which apply broadly to the construction of evaluation resources for language technologies. 
Judith L. Klavans (Columbia University), Kathleen R. McKeown (Columbia   University), Min-Yen Kan (Columbia University) and ...