Abstract
This chapter describes various text summarization techniques and evaluation techniques that have been proposed in literature and discusses the application of text summarization in digital libraries. First, it introduces the history of automatic text summarization and various types of summaries. Next, it reviews various approaches which have been used for single-document and multidocument summarization. Then, it describes the major evaluation approaches for assessing the generated summaries. Finally, it outlines the principal trends of the area of automatic text summarization. This chapter aims to help the reader to obtain a clear overview of the text summarization field and facilitate the application of text summarization in digital libraries.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries |
| Subtitle of host publication | Design, Development, and Impact |
| Publisher | IGI Global |
| Pages | 159-172 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781599048796 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- General Social Sciences