Automatic summarization - Mani, Inderjeet (J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2001)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Automatic Summarization; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of ontents; Preface; Chapter 1. Preliminaries; Chapter 2. Professional summarizing; Chapter 3. Extraction; Chapter 4. Revision; Chapter 5. Discourse-level information; Chapter 6. Abstraction; Chapter 7. Multi-document summarization; Chapter 8. Multimedia summarization; Chapter 9. Evaluation; Chapter 10. Postscript; References; Index
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