Intelligent Text Summarization
Papers from the 1998 AAAI Spring Symposium
Eduard Hovy and Dragomir Radev, Program Cochairs
Technical Report SS-98-06. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California. This technical report is also available in book and CD format.
Contents
Preface / iii
Eduard Hovy
Full Papers
To Build Text Summaries of High Quality, Nuclearity if not Sufficient / 1
Daniel Marcu
Beyond String Matching and Clue Phrases: Improving Efficiency and Coverage in Discourse Analysis / 9
Simon Corston-Oliver
Sentence Extraction and Rhetorical Classification for Flexible Abstracts / 16
Simone Teufel and Marc Moens
A Robust Practical Text Summarization / 26
Tomek Strzalkowski, Jin Wang and Bowden Wise
Generating Patient-Specific Summaries of Online Literature / 34
Kathleen McKeown, Desmond Jordan and Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou
Assembly of Topic Extraction Modules in SUMMARIST / 44
Chin-Yew Lin
Summarization Evaluation Methods: Experiments and Analysis / 51
Hongyan Jing, Regina Barzilay, Kathleen McKeown and Michael Elhadad
Using Cohesion and Coherence Models for Text Summarization / 60
Indergeet Mani, Eric Bloedorn and Barbara Gates
Text Summarization Based on Thematic Representation of Texts / 68
Natalia Loukachevitch
Rewriting Saves Extracted Summaries / 76
Satoshi Sato and Madoka Sato
Flexible Summarization / 84
Jean-Francois Delannoy, Ken Barker, Terry Copeck, Martin Laplante, Stan Matwin and Stan Szpakowicz
Summarization of Documents that Include Graphics / 92
Robert Futrelle
Producing Intelligent Telegraphic Text Reduction to Provide an Audio Scanning Service for the Blind / 102
Gregory Grefenstette
Dynamic Presentation of Document Content for Rapid On-Line Skimming / 109
Branimir Boguraev, Christopher Kennedy, Rachel Bellamy, Sascha Brawer, Yin Yin Wong and Jason Swartz
Short Papers
MINDS - Multi-lingual INteractive Document Summarization / 122
Jim Cowie, Kavi Mahesh, Sergei Nirenburg and Remi Zajac
Evaluation of Automatic Text Summarization across Multiple Documents / 124
Mary McKenna and Elizabeth Liddy
Design and Evaluation of a Psychological Experiment on the Effectiveness of Document Summarization for the Retrieval of Multilingual WWW Documents / 127
Joanne Capstick, Gregor Erbach and Hans Uszkoreit
The Generation of Abstracts by Selective Analysis / 130
Horacio Saggion and Guy Lapalme
A Grounded Theory Approach to Expert Summarizing / 133
Brigitte Endres-Niggemeyer
Text Summarization Based on Terminological Logics / 136
Udo Hahn and Ulrich Reimer
Connectionist Modeling of Human Event Memorization Processes with Application to Automatic Text Summarization / 139
Maria Aretoulaki, Gabriele Scheler and Wilfried Brauer
A Bibliography of Research in Text Summarization / 139
Eduard Hovy, Dragomir Radev, Inderjeet Mani, Dragomir Radev, Ga61 Dias, Hongyan Jing, Branimir Boguraev, Mark Kantrowitz, Tim Ostler
A Bibliography of Research in Text Summarization / 144
Eduard Hovy and Dragomir Radev
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