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McKeown, Kathleen; And Others – Information Processing & Management, 1995
Presents an approach to summarization that combines information from multiple facts into a single sentence using linguistic constructions. Describes two applications: one produces summaries of basketball games, and the other contains summaries of telephone network planning activity. Both summarize input data as opposed to full text. Discusses…
Descriptors: Basketball, Communications, Computational Linguistics, Information Sources

Strzalkowski, Tomek – Information Processing & Management, 1995
Describes an information retrieval system in which advanced natural language processing is used to enhance the effectiveness of term-based document retrieval by preprocessing the documents; discovering interterm dependencies and build a conceptual hierarchy specific to database domain; and processing the user's natural language requests into…
Descriptors: Databases, Information Processing, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking

Maybury, Mark T. – Information Processing & Management, 1995
Describes and evaluates a system that selects key information from an event database by reasoning about event frequencies, frequencies of relations between events, and domain-specific importance measures. The system aggregates similar information and plans a summary tailored to a stereotypical user. (AEF)
Descriptors: Abstracting, Data Processing, Databases, Electronic Text

Tolle, Kristin M.; Chen, Hsinchun – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 2000
Describes a study that investigated the use of a natural language processing technique called noun phrasing to determine whether it is a viable technique for medical information retrieval. Evaluates four noun phrase generation tools for their ability to isolate noun phrases from medical journal abstracts, focusing on precision and recall.…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Comparative Analysis, Electronic Libraries, Evaluation Methods