Index
On-line Proceedings| author | = | B. Endres-Niggemeyer, J. Hobbs, and Karen Sparck Jones |
| title | = | Summarizing text for intelligent communication |
| source | = | Technical Report Dagstuhl Seminar Report 79, 13.12-19. 12.93 (9350), IBFI, Dagstuhl, Germany ,1993. http://www.ik.fh-hannover.de/ik/projekte/Dagstuhl/Abstract/ (Short and Full versions, the latter only available in electronic form) |
| notes | = | a number of interesting papers and ideas. a good start to get to know some early work in the field. |
Conferences| conference | = | ACL/EACL'97 Workshop
on Intelligent Scalable Text Summarization
| time&address | = | July, 1997, Madrid, Spain
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| conference | = | AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Text Summarization |
| submission deadline | = | Oct. 24, 1997 |
| time&address | = | March, 1998, Stanford |
Papers
General papers| author | = | C. D. Paice |
| title | = | Constructing literature abstracts by computer:techniques and prospects |
| source | = | Information Processing and Management, 26(1):171--186, 1990. |
| notes | = | very good overview, widely cited |
| author | = | Karen Sparck Jones |
| title | = | What might be in a summary? |
| source | = | In G. Knorz, J. Krause, and C. Womser-Hacker, editors, Information retrieval '93: von der modellierung zur anwendung, pages 9--26. Konstanz, Universitatsverlag Konstanz, 1993 |
| author | = | J. Hutchins |
| title | = | Summarization: Some problems and methods (abstracting) |
| source | = | Meaning: The Frontier of Informatics 9, March 1987, pages 151-73. Karen Spark Jones edition |
| notes | = | Review of then-current research projects on summarization. |
| author | = | Tomek Strzalkowski |
| title | = | Robust Natural Language Processing and user-guided concept discovery for Information retrieval, extraction and summarization |
| source | = | Tipster Phase III. In Tipster Text Phase III Kickoff Workshop, Columbia, maryland, October, 1996 |
| author | = | Garner Ruth |
| title | = | Efficient text summarization:costs and benefits |
| source | = | Journal of Educational Research, 75:275-279, 1982 |
| author | = | Winograd, Peter N. |
| title | = | Strategic difficulties in summarizing texts |
| source | = | Reading Research Quaterly, 19(4):404-425, summer, 1984 |
| author | = | A. J. Warner |
| title | = | Natural language processing in information retrieval |
| source | = | Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science 14(6):18-19, August-September 1988 |
| notes | = | Very general and non-specific paper |
| author | = | K.W. Church and Lisa. F. Rau |
| title | = | Commercial Applications of Natural Language Processing |
| source | = | Communications of the ACM, 38(11):71-79, 1995 |
| author | = | Endres-Niggemeyer B. and Neugebauer E. |
| title | = | Professional Summarising: No Cognitive Simulation without Observation |
| source | = | Proceedings of the International Conference in Cognitive Science 1995, May 2-6, San Sebastian. 1995. |
| notes | = | presents a "grounded" (i.e, "naturalistic") cognitive model of expert summarising. computerised simulation provided |
| author | = | Russell P. |
| title | = | Investigating Summary Typology: Considerations for Classification |
| source | = | Technostyle, Vol 11 (3/4), Spring/Fall Issue, pp 37-47. 1994 |
| author | = | Chou Hare, Victoria and Kathleen M. Borchardt |
| title | = | Direct instruction of summarization skills. |
| source | = | Reading Research Quarterly, 20(1):62--78, Fall. 1984. |
| author | = | Endres-Niggemeyer, B., Maier, E., & Sigel, A. |
| title | = | How to implement a naturalistic model of abstracting: four core working steps of an expert abstractor |
| source | = | Information Processing & Management 31(5), 631-674. 1995. |
Methods: Statistical| author | = | Gerard Salton, James Allan, Chris Buckley, and Amit Singhal |
| title | = | Automatic analysis, theme generation, and summarization of machine readable texts |
| source | = | Science 264(5164):1421-6, June 1994. |
| notes | = | Good overview. |
| author | = | G. Salton, A. Singhal, M. Mitra, and C. Buckley |
| title | = | Automatic Text Structuring and Summarization |
| source | = | Information Processing and Management, 33(2), 193-208, 1997 |
| author | = | G. Salton, and A. Singhal |
| title | = | Automatic Text theme generation and the analysis of text structure |
| source | = | Cornell TR94-1438, 1994 |
| author | = | G. Salton, A. Singhal, C. Buckley and M. Mitra |
| title | = | Automatic text decomposition using text segments and text themes |
| source | = | In seventh ACM conference on Hypertext, Washington, D.C, 1996 |
| notes | = | (2 methods for text decompostion: segments and themes. applications -- IR, text traversal, and text summarization, mathematical method. summary: selected paragraph excerpts, plus transition materials) |
| author | = | G. Salton, J. Allan, and A. Singhal |
| title | = | Automatic Text Decomposition and structuring |
| source | = | Information Processing and Management, 32(2), 127-138, 1996 |
| author | = | Luhn, H.P. |
| title | = | The automatic creation of Literature abstracts. IBM Journal of research and development |
| source | = | IBM Journal of research and development, 2(2), 1958 |
| notes | = | the earliest work in summarization |
| author | = | J. Kupiec, J. Pedersen, and F. Chen |
| title | = | A trainable document summarizer |
| source | = | ACM SIGIR '95, pages 68-73 |
| notes | = | Talks about "document extracts", which are formed by deleting 80% of the original document's text. |
| author | = | K. Mahesh |
| title | = | Hypertext summary extraction for fast document browsing |
| source | = | In proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium: NLP for WWW, pp. 95-104, Stanford, CA, 1997 |
| author | = | Fum, D., Guida, G., and Tasso, C. |
| title | = | Evaluating importance: a step towards text summarization |
| source | = | In IJCAI proceedings. p840-844. Los Altos CA: Kaufmann, 1985 |
| author | = | Chin-Yew Lin and Eduard Hovy |
| title | = | Identifying topics by position |
| source | = | ANLP'97 |
| author | = | Chin-Yew Lin |
| title | = | Knowledge-based automatic topic identification |
| source | = | In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL--95), pages 308--310, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 26--30. |
| author | = | Fumiyo Fukumoto, Yoshimi Suzuki, and Junichi Fukumoto |
| title | = | An automatic Extraction of key paragraphs based on context dependency |
| source | = | ANLP'97 |
| author | = | Alterman R. |
| title | = | Summarisation in the small |
| source | = | N. Sharkey edition - Advances in cognitive science. Chichester, England, Ellis Horwood. 1986. |
| author | = | Alterman R. |
| title | = | Text summarisation |
| source | = | in Artificial Intelligence Review. 1990. |
| author | = | Rath G.J., Resnick A. and Savage R. |
| title | = | The formation of abstracts by the selection of sentences: Part 1: sentence selection by man and machines |
| source | = | American Documentation 12 (2) pp 139-141. 1961. |
| author | = | R. Brandow, K. Mitze, and L.F. Rau |
| title | = | Automatic Condensation of Electronic Publications by Sentence Selection |
| source | = | Information Processing and Management , 31(5), 675-685, 1995. |
| author | = | Inderjeet Mani, David House, Mark Maybury, and Morgan Green |
| title | = | Towards Content-Based Browsing of Broadcast News Video |
| source | = | In Mark Maybury, editor, Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval, AAAI/MIT Press, 1997. |
Methods: linguistics-based| author | = | Lisa F. Rau, P.S. Jacobs, and U. Zernick |
| title | = | Information extraction and text summarization using linguistic knowledge acquisition |
| source | = | Information Processing and Management 25(4):419-28, 1989. |
| author | = | L. F. Rau |
| title | = | Conceptual information extraction and information retrieval from natural language input |
| source | = | Proceedings of the Conference on User-Oriented, Content-Based, Text and Image Handling, pages 424--437, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1988. |
| author | = | C. Aone, M.E. Okurowski. J. Gorlinsky, and B. Larsen |
| title | = | A scable summarization system using robust NLP |
| source | = | ACL/EACL-97 summarization workshop |
| author | = | Inderjeet Mani and Eric Bloedorn |
| title | = | Multi-document Summarization by Graph Search and Matching |
| source | = | In proceedings of AAAI-97, Providence Rhode Island, 1997 |
| author | = | Inderjeet Mani and Eric Bloedorn |
| title | = | Summarizing similarities and differences among related documents |
| source | = | Proceedings of RIAO-97, Montreal, Canada, June 25-27, 1997 |
| author | = | Regina Barzilay and Michael Elhadad |
| title | = | Using lexical chains for text summarization |
| source | = | ACL/EACL-97 summarization workshop. |
| author | = | Ruqaiya Hasan |
| title | = | Coherence and Cohesive harmony |
| source | = | ?? |
| author | = | Daniel Marcu |
| title | = | From Discourse Structures to text summaries |
| source | = | ACL/EACL-97 summarization workshop, p82-88 |
| author | = | Daniel Marcu |
| title | = | Building up Rhetorical Structure Trees |
| source | = | ACL/EACL-97 |
| author | = | Mann, W.C., and Sandra A.T |
| title | = | Rhetorical structure theory: Toward a functional theory of text organization |
| source | = | Text, 8(3):243-281, 1988 |
| author | = | Aretoulaki M. |
| title | = | Towards a Hybrid Abstract Generation System |
| source | = | in Proceedings of the International Conference on New Methods in Language Processing pp 220-227. Manchester, England. 1994. |
| author | = | Aretoulaki M. |
| title | = | COSY-MATS: A Hybrid Connectionist-Symbolic Approach To The Pragmatic Analysis Of Texts For Their Automatic Summarisation |
| source | = | PhD Thesis. Centre for Computational Linguistics, Dept. of Language Engineering, University of Manchester. Institute of Science and Technology (U.M.I.S.T.). Manchester, England. 1996. |
| author | = | Fontana N.M. |
| title | = | Summarising Strategies in L1 and L2 |
| source | = | MA Dissertation. University College of North Wales, Bangor. 1989. |
| author | = | Gladwin P. and Pulman S. and Spark Jones K. |
| title | = | Shallow processing and automatic summarising: a first study |
| source | = | Technical Report No. 223, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory. 1991. |
| author | = | Jordan M.P. |
| title | = | The Linguistic Genre of Abstracts |
| source | = | in A. Della Volpe edition, The Seventeenth LACUS Forum. Linguistics Association of Canada and the United States, pp 507-527. 1991. |
| author | = | Ono K. and Sumita K. and Miike S. |
| title | = | Abstract Generation based on Rhetorical Structure Extraction |
| source | = | in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-94), Vol 1 pp 344-348, Kyoto, Japan. 1994 |
| author | = | Rino L.H.M. and Scott D. |
| title | = | Automatic generation of draft summaries: heuristics for content selection |
| source | = | presented at XI Simposio Brasileiro de Inteligencia Artificial, Fortaleza, Brazil. October 1994. |
| author | = | Rino L.H.M. and Scott D. |
| title | = | Content selection in Summary Generation |
| source | = | presented at Third International Conference on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing, Dublin City University, Ireland. July |
| author | = | Rush J.E., et al |
| title | = | Automatic abstracting and indexing. II. Production of abstracts by application of contextual inference and syntactic coherence criteria |
| source | = | Journal of the American Society for Information Science 22 (4) pp 260-274. 1971. |
| author | = | Spark Jones K. |
| title | = | Discourse modelling for automatic summarising |
| source | = | Technical Report No. 290, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. 1993 |
| author | = | Fum, D., Guida, G., & Tasso, C. |
| title | = | Forward and backward reasoning in automatic abstracting |
| source | = | In COLING. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (pp. 83-88). Prague. 1982. |
| author | = | F. C. Johnson, C. D. Paice, W. J. Black, and A. P. Neal |
| title | = | The application of linguistic processing to automatic abstract generation |
| source | = | Journal of Document and Text Management, 1(3): 215-241, 1993 |
Methods: Knowledge-based| author | = | K. McKeown and D.R. Radev |
| title | = | Generating summaries of multiple news articles |
| source | = | ACM SIGIR 1995, pages 74-82 |
| notes | = | Summarizes a group of news articles all about the same event. (Corpus based, summarization operators.) |
| author | = | P.S. Jacobs and L.F. Rau |
| title | = | SCISOR:Extracting Information from on-line news |
| source | = | Communications of the ACM, 33(11), pages 88-97, 1990 |
| author | = | Young, S. R., Hayes, P.J. |
| title | = | Automatic classification and summarization of banking telexes |
| source | = | Proceedings of the 2nd conf. on Artifical Intelligence Applications[CAIA]. p402-408. Miami beach, FL, Dec. 11-13, 1985 |
| author | = | U. Reimer and U. Hahn |
| title | = | Text condensation as knowledge base abstraction |
| source | = | Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications, March 1988, pages 338-44 |
| notes | = | Parses the text into a knowledge base, which is filtered and abstracted to produce a summary graph. |
| author | = | Paice, C.D., and Jones, A. P. |
| title | = | The identification of important concepts in highly structured technical papers |
| source | = | In proceedings of the sixteenth annual international ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in IR. 1993. |
| notes | = | uses stylistic clues and constructs to fill in semantic frame for automatic abstracting. aims to combine indexing for IR and abstracting tasks. |
| author | = | Lehnert W.G. |
| title | = | Plot Units and Narrative Summarization |
| source | = | in Cognitive Science, 4, pp 293-331. 1981. |
| author | = | Tait J.I. |
| title | = | Automatic summarising of English texts |
| source | = | Technical Report No. 47, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. 1982. |
| author | = | Tait J.I. |
| title | = | Automatic summarising of English texts |
| source | = | PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England. |
| author | = | Tait J.I. |
| title | = | Generating summaries using a script based language analyser |
| source | = | Steels L. and Campbell J.A. editions, Progress in artificial intelligence, Chichester, Ellis Horwood. 1985 |
| author | = | C. D. Paice |
| title | = | Automatic Generation of Literature Abstracts - An Approach Based on the Identification of Self-Indicating Phrases |
| source | = | In R. N. Oddy, S. E. Robertson, C. J. van Rijsbergen, and P. W. Williams, editors, Information Retrieval Research, pages 172--191. Butterworths, London, U.K., 1981. |
Methods: Generation from Data| author | = | K. McKeown, J. Robin, and K. Kukich |
| title | = | Generating concise natural language summaries |
| source | = | Information Processing and Management 31(5):703-33, 1995 |
| notes | = | This paper talks about how to pack as much information as possible into a summary sentence. Paper talks about application to producing summaries of baseball games. |
| author | = | K. McKeown |
| title | = | Text generation |
| source | = | Cambridge University Press, 1985 |
| notes | = | This book is based on her Ph.D. thesis, and discusses using discourse strategies (text schemas) to generate natural language text. Although not directly related to text summarization, schemas can be useful for template-based systems. |
| author | = | Robin, J. and McKeown, K.R. |
| title | = | Empirically designing and evaluating a new revision-based model for summary generation |
| source | = | Artificial Intelligence Journal, 1995 |
Relevant: Information Extraction| author | = | Douglas E. Appelt and David Israel |
| title | = | Building Information Extraction Systems |
| source | = | ANLP-97 Tutorial |
| author | = | J. Hobbs, D. Appelt, J. Bear, D. Israel, M. Kameyama, M. Stickel, and M. Tyson. |
| title | = | FASTUS: a cascaded finite-state transducer for extracting information form natural-language text |
| source | = | cmp-lg/9705013, 1997 |
Relevant: Text Classification| author | = | Hang Li and Kenji Yamanishi |
| title | = | Document classification using a finite mixture model |
| source | = | cmp-lg/9705005 |
| author | = | Ido Dagan, Yael Karov, and Dan Roth |
| title | = | Mistake-Driven learning in text categorization |
| source | = | cmp-lg/9706006 |
| author | = | Brett Kessler, Geoffrey Nunberg, and Hinrich Schutze |
| title | = | Automatic Detection of Text Genre |
| source | = | cmp-lg/9707002 |
| author | = | Thomas Bayer, Ingrid Renz, Michael Stein, Ulrich Kressel |
| title | = | Domain and language independent feature extraction for statistical text categorization |
| source | = | cmp-lg/9607003 |
Evaluation| author | = | Therese. F. Hand |
| title | = | A proposal for Task-based Evaluation of Text Summarization Systems |
| source | = | ACL/EACL-97 summarization workshop, p31-38 |
| notes | = | talks about DARPA's TIPSTER III project on evaluation of summarization systems. |
| author | = | Jean-Luc Minel, Sylvaine Nugier, and Gerald piat |
| title | = | How to appreciate the quality of automatic text summarization |
| source | = | ACL/EACL-97 summarization workshop, p25-30 |
| author | = | Lehnert, W. G. and Sundheim, B |
| title | = | A performance Evaluation of Text Analysis Technology |
| source | = | AI magazine 12(3):81-94, 1991 |
| author | = | Karen Sparck Jones and J.R. Galliers |
| title | = | Evaluating natural language processing systems: an analysis and review |
| source | = | New York: Springer, 1996 |
| author | = | J.R. Galliers and Karen S. Jones |
| title | = | Evaluating Natural Language Processing Systems |
| source | = | University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Technical Report No. 291, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 1993 |
| notes | = | the above book is based on this report. |
| author | = | A. H. Morris, G. M. Kasper, and D. A. Adams |
| title | = | The effects and limitations of Automated Text Condensing on Reading Comprehension Performance |
| source | = | Information Systems Research 3:1 pages 17-35, 1992 |
| author | = | Black W.J., and Johnson F.C. |
| title | = | A practical evaluation of two rule-based automatic abstracting techniques |
| source | = | Expert Systems for Information Management 1 pp159-177. 1988. |
| author | = | Reder L.M. and Anderson J.R. |
| title | = | A Comparison of Texts and Their Summaries: Memorial Consequences |
| source | = | in Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 19, pp 121-134. 1980 |
Projects
| project | = | Summarization Evaluation Conference |
| organization | = | TIPSTER Summarization Evaluation Conference |
| notes | = |
Participants of the evaluation conference include: Carnegie Group Inc. and Carnegir-Mellon University(CGI/CMU), Cornell Univeristy and SabIR Research, Inc. (Cornell/SabIR), GE Research and Development(GE), New Mexicon State University(NMSU), the University of Pennsylvania(Penn), the University of Southern California-Information Sciences Institute(ISI), Lexis-Nexis(LN), the University of Surrey(Surrey, Britain), IBM Thomas J. Watson Research(IBM), TextWise LLC, SRA International, British Telecommunications(BT, Britain), Intelligent Algorithms(IA), the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval at the Univeristy of Massachussetts(Umass), the Center for Information Research(CIR, Russia), the National Taiwan University (NTU, Taiwan) |
| project | = | The Sheffield University Summarisation project |
| organization | = | University of Sheffield, UK |
| project | = | The Text Summarization Project |
| organization | = | University of Ottawa |
| system | = | ProSum |
| Company | = | British Telecom |
| system | = | LinguisticX |
| Company | = | inxight, a xerox new enterprise company |
| system | = | Extractor |
| Company | = | Tetranet Software |
| system | = | Summarization Project |
| Company | = | IBM Japan |
| system | = | Summarizer for MS Word |
| Company | = | Microsoft |
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