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A ‘Select and Generate’ Approach to Automatic Abstracting

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This paper describes on-going work on a new method of automatic abstracting which uses general domain knowledge in association with extracting techniques. A representation of the main concepts of a paper are stored in an abstract-frame. Each section of the abstract-frame has a group of phrases associated with it, and the occurrence of these phrases are used to extract relevant portions of text from source documents. The completed abstract-frame is then run through a program which uses an abstract template to produce a coherent, cohesive abstract.

The system is being developed with papers in the area of agriculture, specifically papers dealing with experiments, trials or observations on crops. One aim of the project however is to produce a system which may be easily transferred to other domain areas.

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  1. Computing Dept, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LAl 4YR, UK

    P. A. Jones & C. D. Paice

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  1. Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YT, UK

    Tony McEnery BA (Hons), MSc

  2. Department of Computing School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK

    Chris Paice BSc.Tech, PhD

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Jones, P.A., Paice, C.D. (1993). A ‘Select and Generate’ Approach to Automatic Abstracting. In: McEnery, T., Paice, C. (eds) 14th Information Retrieval Colloquium. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3211-0_10

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