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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9789027249869
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-90-272-4986-9
- Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Erscheinungstermin: 01.06.2001
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2001
- Serie: Natural Language Processing
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 420 g
- Seiten: 286
- Format (B x H): 150 x 220 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt