{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Evaluating Importance: A Step Towards Text Summarization","authors":[{"name":"Danilo Fum","slug":"danilo-fum","given":"Danilo","family":"Fum","affiliation":""},{"name":"Giovanni Guida","slug":"giovanni-guida","given":"Giovanni","family":"Guida","affiliation":""},{"name":"Carlo Tasso","slug":"carlo-tasso","given":"Carlo","family":"Tasso","affiliation":""}],"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.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/165","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/0165.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/165.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/bibtex/165","volume":{"slug":"1985","title":"Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1985","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/","year":1985,"location":"Los Angeles, California, USA","dates":"","editors":"Aravind Joshi","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Natural Language","track":"Natural Language","number":165,"pages":{"first":840,"last":843},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}