Automatic Text Summarization in Digital Libraries

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Author(s): Shiyan Ou (University of Wolverhampton, UK), Christopher S.G. Khoo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)and Dion Hoe-Lian Goh (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 14
Source title: Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries: Design, Development, and Impact
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Yin-Leng Theng (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Schubert Foo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Dion Goh (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)and Jin-Cheon Na (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-879-6.ch016

Keywords: Digital Libraries / Information Science Reference / Library & Information Science / Library Science

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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.

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