Of course, setting up a summarization model that ensures smooth integration with human thinking is a relatively long process. Fig. 1 shows where the researchers are located in such a research strategy: An empirical model describing the intellectual strategies of human expert summarizers has been elaborated and published (most comprehensively in Endres-Niggemeyer 1998). The empirical model has b...

In this paper we describe research on summarizing conversations in the meetings and emails domains. We introduce a conversation summarization system that works in multiple domains utilizing general conversational features, and compare our results with domain-dependent systems for meeting and email data. We find that by treating meetings and emails as conversations with general conversational fe...

We define temporal summaries of news stories as extracting as few sentences as possible from each event within a news topic, where the stories are presented one at a time and sentences from a story must be ranked before the next story can be considered. We outline an evaluation strategy that we have developed for this task and describe simple language models for capturing novelty and usefulness...

This paper addresses the problem of summarizing decisions in spoken meetings: our goal is to produce a concise decision abstract for each meeting decision. We explore and compare token-level and dialogue act-level automatic summarization methods using both unsupervised and supervised learning frameworks. In the supervised summarization setting, and given true clusterings of decisionrelated utte...

This paper describes the multi-document summarization system designed by the Webclopedia team from ISI for DUC 2005. In contrast to the past DUCs and previous designs, this version of our summarizer consists of a query-interpretation component that directly analyzes the given user profile and topic narrative for each document cluster before creating a corresponding summary. This system ranks 4 ...

background: in the absence of specific logistics supply, a bioterrorism attack using smallpox virus, including pollution of water and food can devastate the national health foundation, and many of the patients and ordinary people may die. one of the most important ways to deal with this issue for bioterrorism attack is enhancement of awareness and attitude of medical staff to identify and react...

background and purpose: biochemistry is extremely difficult in preclinical medical education because of the monotonous use of lectures, tutorials, practical and end of semester load with end of semester examination. although several studies have been carried out on learning biochemistry in europe and america, asian studies are very few and literature in the sri lankan context is lacking. we aim...