Single-document and multi-document summarization techniques for email threads using sentence compression

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1600-1610

  Zajic, David M ^a   Dorr, Bonnie J ^a   Lin, Jimmy ^b  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Email summarization; Enron; Informal media; Sentence compression; Trimming

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC MAIL; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MESSAGE PASSING; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEXT PROCESSING;

EMAIL SUMMARIZATION; INDIVIDUAL MESSAGE SUMMARIZATION (IMS); INFORMAL MEDIA; SENTENCE COMPRESSION;

DATA COMPRESSION;

EID: 44349094473     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2007.09.007     Document Type: Article

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