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Endres-Niggemeyer, Brigitte; And Others – Information Processing & Management, 1995
Examines four working steps from an empirical model where an expert abstractor discovers what a paper is about and drafts a topic sentence; a simulation system is developed using this model. Discusses knowledge processing activities of professional summarizing. Results indicate that a small simulation model of professional summarizing is feasible.…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Cognitive Processes, Computer Simulation, Data Processing

Brandow, Ronald; And Others – Information Processing & Management, 1995
Describes a system that performs automatic summaries of news from a large commercial news service encompassing 41 different publications. This system was compared to a system that used only the lead sentences of the texts. Lead-based summaries significantly outperformed the sentence-selection summaries. (AEF)
Descriptors: Abstracting, Data Processing, Electronic Text, Expert Systems

Bateman, John; Teich, Elke – Information Processing & Management, 1995
Describes a method of selective information presentation exemplified by an editor that produces an encyclopedia based on source articles, and needs access to dynamically-selected aspects of the articles for editorial decision making. Presents a system that provides a generic basis for summarization by building multilingual, genre-driven automatic…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Data Processing, Decision Making, Editing

Maybury, Mark T. – Information Processing & Management, 1995
Describes and evaluates a system that selects key information from an event database by reasoning about event frequencies, frequencies of relations between events, and domain-specific importance measures. The system aggregates similar information and plans a summary tailored to a stereotypical user. (AEF)
Descriptors: Abstracting, Data Processing, Databases, Electronic Text

Aldous, K. J. – Information Processing & Management, 1996
Discusses a method for organizing and augmenting the data in a complex database to make automatic retrieval possible. Presents an example of the method using a database of information on the nature and use of fungicides. Initial results of trials with potential users suggest that the system can produce relevant responses to queries. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Automation, Data Processing, Databases