Automatic summarization as means of simplifying texts, an evaluation for Swedish

Proceedings of the 18th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics, NODALIDA 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 198-205

  Smith, Christian ^a   Jönsson, Arne ^a  

^a Santa Anna IT Research Institute   (Sweden)

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Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SUMMARIZATION; PAGE RANKS; SENTENCE STRUCTURES; SPACE MODELS; SWEDISHS; WORD SPACES;

EID: 84936961409     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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