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ERIC Number: EJ513772
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
Pages: N/A
Abstractor: N/A
Reference Count: 0
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0306-4573
Generating Concise Natural Language Summaries.
McKeown, Kathleen; And Others
Information Processing & Management, v31 n5 p703-33 Sep 1995
Presents an approach to summarization that combines information from multiple facts into a single sentence using linguistic constructions. Describes two applications: one produces summaries of basketball games, and the other contains summaries of telephone network planning activity. Both summarize input data as opposed to full text. Discusses problems for summary generation. (contains 58 references) (AEF)
Descriptors: Basketball, Communications, Computational Linguistics, Information Sources, Input Output, Natural Language Processing, Problems, Telephone Communications Systems
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Reports - Research; Journal Articles
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Summarization
Note: Special issue: "Summarizing Text."