Evaluating Importance: A Step Towards Text Summarization
Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Natural Language. Pages 840-843.
Abstract
The paper deals with the problern of evaluating importance of descriptive texts and proposes a procedural, rule-based approach which is implemented in a prototype experimental system operating in the specific domain of text summarization. Importance evaluation is performed through a set of rules which are used to assign importance values to the different parts of a text and to resolve or explain conflicting evaluations. The system utilizes world knowledge on the subject domain contained in an encyclopedia and takes into account a goal assigned by the user for specifying the pragmatic aspects of the understanding activity. In the paper some examples of the system operation are presented by following the evaluation of a small sample text.
@inproceedings{ijcai1985p165,
title = {Evaluating Importance: A Step Towards Text Summarization},
author = {Fum, Danilo and Guida, Giovanni and Tasso, Carlo},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-85}},
publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},
editor = {Aravind Joshi},
pages = {840--843},
year = {1985},
note = {Natural Language},
url = {https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/165},
}
TY - CPAPER TI - Evaluating Importance: A Step Towards Text Summarization AU - Fum, Danilo AU - Guida, Giovanni AU - Tasso, Carlo T2 - Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-85 PB - International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence PY - 1985 SP - 840 EP - 843 UR - https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/165 ER -Copied
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