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Peer reviewedBrandow, 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
