Automatic Summarization

by Inderjeet Mani

With the explosion in the quantity of on-line text and multimedia information in recent years, there has been a renewed interest in automatic summarization. This book provides a systematic introduction to the field, explaining basic definitions, the strategies used by human summarizers, and automatic methods that leverage linguistic and statistical knowledge to produce extracts and abstracts. Drawing from a wealth of research in artificial intelligence,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588110605
• ISBN13: 9781588110602
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 286 Pages