Automatic Summarization (Natural Language Processing) - Softcover

Mani, Inderjeet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9027249865 ISBN 13: 9789027249869

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2001

Synopsis

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, natural language processing, and information retrieval, the book also includes detailed assessments of evaluation methods and new topics such as multi-document and multimedia summarization. Previous automatic summarization books have been either collections of specialized papers, or else authored books with only a chapter or two devoted to the field as a whole. This is the first textbook on the subject, developed based on teaching materials used in two one-semester courses. To further help the student reader, the book includes detailed case studies, accompanied by end-of-chapter reviews and an extensive glossary.

Audience: students and researchers, as well as information technology managers, librarians, and anyone else interested in the subject.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027249865
• ISBN 13: 9789027249869
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 298