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ICADL 2003: Digital Libraries: Technology and Management of Indigenous Knowledge for Global Access pp 46–61Cite as

Automatic Summarization of Chinese and English Parallel Documents

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As a result of the rapid growth in Internet access, significantly more information has become available online in real time. However, there is not sufficient time for users to read large volumes of information and make decisions accordingly. The problem of information-overloading can be resolved through the application of automatic summarization. Many summarization systems for documents in different languages have been implemented. However, the performance of summarization system on documents in different languages has not yet been investigated. In this paper, we compare the result of fractal summarization technique on parallel documents in Chinese and English. The grammatical and lexical differences between Chinese and English have significant effect on the summarization processes. Their impact on the performances of the summarization for the Chinese and English parallel documents is compared.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, The City University of Hong Kong,  

    Fu Lee Wang

  2. Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong,  

    Christopher C. Yang

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  1. Department of Information Science, Faculty of Information Science & Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, 43600, UKM Selangor, Malaysia

    Tengku Mohd Tengku Sembok

  2. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia

    Halimah Badioze Zaman

  3. Department of Management Information Systems, Eller College of Management, The University of Arizona, AZ 85721, USA

    Hsinchun Chen

  4. International School of Information Management, University of Mysore, Mysore, India

    Shalini R. Urs

  5. School of Engineering, Information and Communications University, 119, Munjiro, Yuseong-gu, 305-732, Daejeon, Korea

    Sung-Hyon Myaeng

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Wang, F.L., Yang, C.C. (2003). Automatic Summarization of Chinese and English Parallel Documents. In: Sembok, T.M.T., Zaman, H.B., Chen, H., Urs, S.R., Myaeng, SH. (eds) Digital Libraries: Technology and Management of Indigenous Knowledge for Global Access. ICADL 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2911. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24594-0_5

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