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(More customer reviews)How ironic that the (automatic text summarization?) software used by Amazon to list products on their website sees the word "summarization" in the title and decides that this is an abridged edition. NOT! Look up the title in Worldcat. That said, this book is a super collection of the most important technical papers on the subject published through 1998, conveniently collected in one volume. An essential introduction to the history, terminology, and many approaches taken to further development of this critical field. Each article includes bibliographical references, and the editors have provided a very helpful comprehensive index.

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With the rapid growth of the World Wide Web and electronic informationservices, information is becoming available on-line at an incredible rate. Oneresult is the oft-decried information overload. No one has time to read everything,yet we often have to make critical decisions based on what we are able toassimilate. The technology of automatic text summarization is becoming indispensablefor dealing with this problem. Text summarization is the process of distilling themost important information from a source to produce an abridged version for aparticular user or task.Until now there has been no state-of-the-art collection ofthe most important writings in automatic text summarization. This book presents thekey developments in the field in an integrated framework and suggests futureresearch areas. The book is organized into six sections: Classical Approaches,Corpus-Based Approaches, Exploiting Discourse Structure, Knowledge-Rich Approaches,Evaluation Methods, and New Summarization Problem Areas.Contributors : D. A. Adams,C. Aone, R. Barzilay, E. Bloedorn, B. Boguraev, R. Brandow, C. Buckley, F. Chen, M.J. Chrzanowski, H. P. Edmundson, M. Elhadad, T. Firmin, R. P. Futrelle, J.Gorlinsky, U. Hahn, E. Hovy, D. Jang, K. Sparck Jones, G. M. Kasper, C. Kennedy, K.Kukich, J. Kupiec, B. Larsen, W. G. Lehnert, C. Lin, H. P. Luhn, I. Mani, D. Marcu,M. Maybury, K. McKeown, A. Merlino, M. Mitra, K. Mitze, M. Moens, A. H. Morris, S.H. Myaeng, M. E. Okurowski, J. Pedersen, J. J. Pollock, D. R. Radev, G. J. Rath, L.F. Rau, U. Reimer, A. Resnick, J. Robin, G. Salton, T. R. Savage, A. Singhal, G.Stein, T. Strzalkowski, S. Teufel, J. Wang, B. Wise, A. Zamora.

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