Advances in Automatic Text Summarization [Abridged] [Hardcover]

Inderjeet Mani (Editor), Mark T. Maybury (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0262133598 | ISBN-13: 978-0262133593 | Publication Date: July 16, 1999 | Edition: abridged edition

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.

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About the Author

Inderjeet Mani is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

Mark T. Maybury is Executive Director of the Information Technology Division at the MITRE Corporation in Bedford, Massachusetts. He is the editor of Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces (AAAI/MIT Press 1993) and Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval (AAAI/ MIT Press 1997) and coeditor of Readings on Intelligent User Interfaces, Advances in Text Summarization (MIT Press 1999), and Advances in Knowledge Management (MIT Press 2001).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 442 pages
• Publisher: The MIT Press; abridged edition edition (July 16, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0262133598
• ISBN-13: 978-0262133593
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,883,588 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars error in description, February 19, 2011

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Evelyn F. Kaehler - See all my reviews

This review is from: Advances in Automatic Text Summarization (Hardcover)

How ironic that the (automatic text summarization?) software used by Amazon to list products on their website sees the word "summarization" in the title and decides that this is an abridged edition. NOT! Look up the title in Worldcat. That said, this book is a super collection of the most important technical papers on the subject published through 1998, conveniently collected in one volume. An essential introduction to the history, terminology, and many approaches taken to further development of this critical field. Each article includes bibliographical references, and the editors have provided a very helpful comprehensive index.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Advances in Automatic Text Summarization, August 24, 2000

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Taeho Charles Jo (Taejon, Korea) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Advances in Automatic Text Summarization (Hardcover)

Now I need to collect research papers about text summarization. It is happy to find the book including papers about text summarzation. I wish this book describes the techniques of text summarization rather than an collection of research papers.