Extrinsic summarization evaluation: A decision audit task

ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Murray, Gabriel ^a   Kleinbauer, Thomas ^b   Poller, Peter ^b   Becker, Tilman ^b   Renals, Steve ^c   Kilgour, Jonathan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Browsing; Evaluation; Extraction; Interfaces; Summarization

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTION; BROWSING; EVALUATION; INTERFACES; SUMMARIZATION;

ABSTRACTING; ERRORS; INFORMATION SERVICES; REMELTING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70350335794     PISSN: 15504875     EISSN: 15504883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1596517.1596518     Document Type: Article

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