Summarisation
definition: Text summarization is the process of distilling the most important information from a source (or sources) to produce an abridged version for a particular user (or users) and task (or tasks). Source: Mani, I. and Maybury, M. T., editors (1999), Advances in Automatic Text Summarization. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
See also the corresponding HLT Survey chapter: http://www.lt-world.org/hlt_survey/ltw-chapter7-4.pdf
related project(s):
- Summarization Projects at Columbia University
- Summ-it
- Automated Text Summarization (SUMMARIST)
- Document Understanding Conferences (DUC)
- Text Retrieval, Extraction and Summarisation for Large Enterprises (TRESTLE)
- Search and Summarize (SeaSum)
related organisation(s):
- Columbia Natural Language Processing Group
- MITRE Corporation
- Intelligent Systems Division (ISD)
related person(s):
- Chin Yew Lin
- Simone Teufel
- Karen Spärck Jones
- Daniel Marcu
- Dragomir R. Radev
- Eduard H. Hovy
- Inderjeet Mani
related system(s) / resource(s):
- Inxight Summarizer SDK
- IBM summarization products
- Microsoft - AutoSummarize
- Glucose Surfboard
relevant source(s):
related publication(s):
The automatic creation of literature abstracts.
Luhn, H. P.
IBM Journal of Research and Development. 2. 1985. 159--165.
Advances in Automatic Text Summarization.
Mani, Inderjeet and Maybury, Mark T.
MI