Automated Text Summarization and the Summarist System

Abstract

This paper consists of three parts: a preliminary typology of summaries in general; a description of the current and planned modules and performance of the SUMMARIST automated multilingual text summarization system being built sat ISI, and a discussion of three methods to evaluate summaries.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA631227

Entities

People

  • Chin-yew Lin
  • Eduard Hovy

Organizations

  • University of Southern California

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automated Text Summarization
  • Classification
  • Cognitive Science
  • Compression Ratio
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Languages
  • Information Retrieval
  • Information Science
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Machine Translation
  • Materials
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Natural Languages
  • Ontologies

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  • Computational Linguistics
  • Software Engineering.