EVALUATION OF MACHINE-PRODUCED ABSTRACTS.
Abstract
This report describes the results of a testing program directed at evaluating the effectiveness of abstracts produced by a number of computer processes compared to manually produced abstracts. Comprehension type tests were used to determine the effectiveness of the various abstracts, manual and automatic, in supporting the performance of test subjects on specific tasks when using the abstracts. English manual translations of Russian scientific text were used throughout the test. The machine abstracts were produced from the Russian text and then the Russian abstracts were manually translated into English. Test subjects were 135 undergraduate volunteers who had at least 20 hours of course work in the fields being tested. Documents were used from the fields of Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1966
- Accession Number
- AD0482535
Entities
People
- Dan Payne
- Donald W. Mcgill Jr.
- John A. Boldovici
Organizations
- American Institutes for Research