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ERIC Number: EJ513770
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-0306-4573
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Automatic Condensation of Electronic Publications by Sentence Selection.
Brandow, Ronald; And Others
Information Processing & Management, v31 n5 p675-85 Sep 1995
Describes a system that performs automatic summaries of news from a large commercial news service encompassing 41 different publications. This system was compared to a system that used only the lead sentences of the texts. Lead-based summaries significantly outperformed the sentence-selection summaries. (AEF)
Descriptors: Abstracting, Data Processing, Electronic Text, Expert Systems, Formative Evaluation, Information Services, News Media, Performance Factors, Publications
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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