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Automatic Summarization

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John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2001 - 285 pages
With the explosion in the quantity of on-line text and multimedia information in recent years, there has been a renewed interest in automatic summarization. This book provides a systematic introduction to the field, explaining basic definitions, the strategies used by human summarizers, and automatic methods that leverage linguistic and statistical knowledge to produce extracts and abstracts. Drawing from a wealth of research in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and information retrieval, the book also includes detailed assessments of evaluation methods and new topics such as multi-document and multimedia summarization. Previous automatic summarization books have been either collections of specialized papers, or else authored books with only a chapter or two devoted to the field as a whole. This is the first textbook on the subject, developed based on teaching materials used in two one-semester courses. To further help the student reader, the book includes detailed case studies, accompanied by end-of-chapter reviews and an extensive glossary. Audience: students and researchers, as well as information technology managers, librarians, and anyone else interested in the subject.
  

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Automatic summarization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Automatic summarization is the creation of a shortened version of a text by a computer program. The product of this procedure still contains the most ...
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Automatic Summarization
available on the World Wide Web, the field of automatic summarization has exploded ... Automatic Summarization is the first monograph on the subject, ...
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Automatic summarization of voicemail messages using lexical and ...
Automatic Summarization. John Benjamins Publishing, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 25 Mani, I. and Maybury, M. 1999. Advances in Automatic Text Summarization. ...
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The Challenges of Automatic Summarization
Researchers are investigating summarization tools and methods that automatically extract or abstract content from a range of information sources, ...
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The challenges of automatic summarization - Computer
ANLP/NAACL 2000 Workshop on Automatic Summarization. (Seattle, Wash., May 2000); http://www.isi.edu/cyl/was-anlp2000/. • COLING-ACL98 Tutorial on Text ...
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Semi-Automatic Summarization of XML Collections
Automatic Summarization . American/European Conference on Computational Linguistics (ACL/EACL 2001) Toulouse,. France 8 July 2001. [Fuhr:99] N. Fuhr (1999). ...
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Integrating cohesion and coherence for Automatic Summarization
sive properties of text for automatic summarization. In. JOTRI’02. Jade Goldstein, Vibhu Mittal, ... Automatic Summarization. Nautral. Language Processing. ...
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Automatic Web Site Summarization
The automatic summarization research is about five ... The traditional automatic summarization ..... web sites automatic summarization research. We had ...
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Front Matter
Automatic summarization aims at producing a concise, ... The problem of automatic summarization poses a variety of tough challenges in both NL ...
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