Advances in Automatic Text Summarization

by Inderjeet Mani and Mark T. Maybury (Eds.)

• ISBN13: 9780262133593
• ISBN10: 0262133598
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-16
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

With the rapid growth of the World Wide Web and electronic information services, information is becoming available on-line at an incredible rate. One result is the oft-decried information overload. No one has time to read everything, yet we often have to make critical decisions based on what we are able to assimilate. The technology of automatic text summarization is becoming indispensable for dealing with this problem. Text summarization is the process of distilling the most important information from a source to produce an abridged version for a particular user or task. Until now there has been no state-of-the-art collection of the most important writings in automatic text summarization. This book presents the key developments in the field in an integrated framework and suggests future research areas. The book is organized into six sections: Classical Approaches, Corpus-Based Approaches, Exploiting Discourse Structure, Knowledge-Rich Approaches, Evaluation Methods, and New Summarization Problem Areas. Contributors: D. A. Adams, C. Aone, R. Barzilay, E. Bloedorn, B. Boguraev, R. Brandow, C. Buckley, F. Chen, M. J. Chrzanowski, H. P. Edmundson, M. Elhadad, T. Firmin, R. P. Futrelle, J. Gorlinsky, U. Hahn, E. Hovy, D. Jang, K. Sparck Jones, G. M. Kasper, C. Kennedy, K. Kukich, J. Kupiec, B. Larsen, W. G. Lehnert, C. Lin, H. P. Luhn, I. Mani, D. Marcu, M. Maybury, K. McKeown, A. Merlino, M. Mitra, K. Mitze, M. Moens, A. H. Morris, S. H. Myaeng, M. E. Okurowski, J. Pedersen, J. J. Pollock, D. R. Radev, G. J. Rath, L. F. Rau, U. Reimer, A. Resnick, J. Robin, G. Salton, T. R. Savage, A. Singhal, G. Stein, T. Strzalkowski, S. Teufel, J. Wang, B. Wise, A. Zamora.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	ix
Automatic Summarizing: Factors and Directions	1	(14)
K. Sparck Jones
Section 1: Classical Approaches
The Automatic Creation of Literature Abstracts	15	(8)
H. P. Luhn
New Methods in Automatic Extracting	23	(20)
H. P. Edmundson
Automatic Abstracting Research at Chemical Abstracts Service	43	(12)
J. J. Pollock
A. Zamora
Section 2: Corpus-based Approaches
A Trainable Document Summarizer	55	(6)
J. Kupiec
J. Pedersen
F. Chen
Development and Evaluation of a Statistically Based Document Summarization System	61	(10)
S. H. Myaeng
D. Jang
A Trainable Summarizer with Knowledge Acquired from Robust NLP Techniques	71	(10)
C. Aone
M. E. Okurowski
J. Gorlinsky
B. Larsen
Automated Text Summarization in SUMMARIST	81	(18)
E. Hovy
C. Lin
Section 3: Exploiting Discourse Structure
Salience-based Content Characterization of Text Documents	99	(12)
B. Boguraev
C. Kennedy
Using Lexical Chains for Text Summarization	111	(12)
R. Barzilay
M. Elhadad
Discourse Trees Are Good Indicators of Importance in Text	123	(14)
D. Marcu
A Robust Practical Text Summarizer	137	(18)
T. Strzalkowski
G. Stein
J. Wang
B. Wise
Argumentative Classification of Extracted Sentences as a First Step Towards Flexible Abstracting	155	(22)
S. Teufel
M. Moens
Section 4: Knowledge-rich Approaches
Plot Units: A Narrative Summarization Strategy	177	(38)
W. G. Lehnert
Knowledge-based Text Summarization: Salience and Generalization Operators for Knowledge Base Abstraction	215	(18)
U. Hahn
U. Reimer
Generating Concise Natural Language Summaries	233	(32)
K. McKeown
J. Robin
K. Kukich
Generating Summaries from Event Data	265	(22)
M. Maybury
Section 5: Evaluation Methods
The Formation of Abstracts by the Selection of Sentences	287	(6)
G. J. Rath
A. Resnick
T. R. Savage
Automatic Condensation of Electronic Publications by Sentence Selection	293	(12)
R. Brandow
K. Mitze
L. F. Rau
The Effects and Limitations of Automated Text Condensing on Reading Comprehension Performance	305	(20)
A. H. Morris
G. M. Kasper
D. A. Adams
An Evaluation of Automatic Text Summarization Systems	325	(16)
T. Firmin
M. J. Chrzanowski
Section 6: New Summarization Problem Areas
Automatic Text Structuring and Summarization	341	(16)
G. Salton
A. Singhal
M. Mitra
C. Buckley
Summarizing Similarities and Differences among Related Documents	357	(24)
I. Mani
E. Bloedorn
Generating Summaries of Multiple News Articles	381	(10)
K. McKeown
D. R. Radev
An Empirical Study of the Optimal Presentation of Multimedia Summaries of Broadcast News	391	(12)
A. Merlino
M. Maybury
Summarization of Diagrams in Documents	403	(19)
R. P. Futrelle
Index	422