Automatic indexing and abstracting of document texts /

This book summarizes the latest techniques of automatic indexing and abstracting, and the results of their application. It also places the techniques in the context of the study of text, manual indexing and abstracting, and the use of the indexing descriptions and abstracts in systems that select do...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moens, Marie-Francine, 1957-
Corporate Author: Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2000
Boston : [2000]
Series:The Kluwer international series on information retrieval ; 6
Kluwer international series on information retrieval ; 6
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Need for Indexing and Abstracting Texts
  • 2. Attributes of Text
  • 3. Text Representations and their Use
  • 4. Automatic Indexing: The Selection of Natural Language Index Terms
  • 5. Automatic Indexing: The Assignment of Controlled Language Index Terms
  • 6. Automatic Abstracting: The Creation of Text Summaries
  • 7. Text Structuring and Categorization when Summarizing Legal Cases
  • 8. Clustering of Paragraphs when Summarizing Legal Cases
  • 9. Creation of Highlight Abstracts of Magazine Articles
  • 10. Assignment of Subject Descriptors to Magazine Articles.
  • 1 The Need for Indexing and Abstracting Texts
  • 2. The Attributes of Text
  • 3. Text Representations and their Use
  • 4. Automatic Indexing: The Selection of Natural Language Index Terms
  • 5. Automatic Indexing: The Assignment of Controlled Language Index Terms
  • 6. Automatic Abstracting: The Creation of Text Summaries
  • 7. Text Structuring and Categorization when Summarizing Legal Cases
  • 8. Clustering of Paragraphs when Summarizing Legal Cases
  • 9. The Creation of Highlight Abstracts of Magazine Articles
  • 10. The Assignment of Subject Descriptors to Magazine Articles.