Design and development of a concept-based multi-document summarization system for research abstracts

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 308-326

  Ou, Shiyan ^a,b   Khoo, Christopher Soo Guan ^a   Goh, Dion H ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discourse parsing; Information extraction; Information integration; Multi document summarization

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE;

DISCOURSE PARSING; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; INFORMATION INTEGRATION; MULTI-DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 43449093478     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551507084630     Document Type: Article

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