RESEARCH IN TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVING AUTOMATIC ABSTRACTING PROCEDURES,

摘要

The central problem in automatic abstracting is the measurement of the representativeness of words and sentences with respect to the essential content of the document. A number of such measures,varying in sophistication from frequency of word occurrence to the utilization of various textual and linguistic procedures,will be tested and evaluated. Four sets of experiments are planned: (1) Development of Representativeness Criteria, (2) Production and Evaluation of Automatic Abstracts, (3) Document Categorization,and (4) Automatic Abstracting in Russian. (Author)