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Automatically Generating Wikipedia Articles: A Structure-Aware Approach Christina Sauper and Regina Barzilay Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology {csauper,regina}@ Abstract such as searching the Internet. Moreover, the chal- lenge of maintaining output readability is mag- In this paper, we investigate an ap- nified when creating a longer document that dis- proach for creating a comprehensive tex- cusses multiple topics. tual overview of a subject composed of in- In our approach, we explore how the high- formation drawn from the Internet. We use level structure of human-authored documents can the high-level structure of human-authored be used to produce well-formed comprehensive texts to automatically induce a domain- overview articles. We select relevant material for specific template for the topic structure of an article using a domain-specific automatically a new overview. The algorithmic innova- generated content template. For example, a tem- tion of our work is a method to learn topic- plate for articles about diseases might contain di- specific extractors for content selection agnosis, causes, symptoms, and treatment. Our jointly for the entire template. We aug- system induces these templates by analyzing pat- ment the standard perceptron algorithm terns in the structure of human-authored docu- with a global inte