Towards Answer-Focused Summarization

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA 2002)

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 681-686

  Wu, Harris ^a   Radev, Dragomir R ^a   Fan, Weiguo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b PAMPLIN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS   (United States)

Author keywords

Answer focused summarization; Question answering; Summarization

Indexed keywords

ANSWER FOCUSED SUMMARIZATION; QUESTION ANSWERING; SUMMARIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; EDUCATION; HAND HELD COMPUTERS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SEARCH ENGINES; SYSTEM PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 1842475048     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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