The Text Summarization project

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The Text Summarization Project

The parent project: Intelligent Information Access

People in or close to the TS project | Local documents

Assorted links:
Reference lists | Sites | Researchers | Text sources | Conferences |
Projects, products | Papers

People in and close to the TS project

Ken Barker, UofO KAML lab [NLP]

[NLP]

Caroline Barrière, UofO KAML lab [NLP]

[NLP]

Martin Brooks, NRC IIT

Yllias Chali (E-mail), UofO KAML lab [NLP]

[NLP]

Terry Copeck, UofO KAML lab [NLP]

[NLP]

Berry Debruijn (E-mail), UofO KAML lab

Jean-Francois Delannoy, RES Int'l. [NLP]

[NLP]

Rob Holte, UofO KAML lab

Chris Lankester, UofO KAML lab

Joel Martin, NRC IIT

Stan Matwin, UofO KAML lab

Darren Redfern (E-mail), Practical Approach Corp.

Stan Szpakowicz, UofO KAML lab [NLP]

[NLP]

Peter Turney, NRC IIT

Local documents

Research on Text Summarization (fragments of a grant proposal)
An early experiment (a technical report)

Assorted links

Bracketed names access local files (usually same-named); other links go to the authoring site.

Reference lists (including some live links)

Peter Turney's annotated list of literature on summarization and keyphrase extraction (NRC IIT)

summarization [alphalist.html] (Sheffield)

Nikos Drakos' "Relative Weights of Words in Documents" references [drakos.html] (Leeds)

Richard Tucker's suggestions (Cambridge)

local compilations: for the proposal, current searching.

Dagstuhl: Summarizing for Intelligent Communication
ELSEnet [ELSEnet.html] (Edinburgh)
Applied Linguistics Virtual Library [AppLingBBK] (Birkbeck)
Information Sciences Virtual Library (WWW)
IS Web Resources [Infosci1.html] (CRRM)
Corpus Research (Birmingham>
TIPSTER; SUMMAC, First Automatic Text Summarization Conference
collocation resources [colloc.html]

Frances Johnson
Udo Hahn (Freiburg)
Michael Mauldin (CMU)
Dragomir Radev: Summarization resources (Columbia)
Hongyan Jing (Columbia)
Naomi Sager (NYU)
Mark Kantrowicz (Justsystem)

JAIR, Journal of A.I. Research
ASCII copies extracted from JAIR article LaTEX source
Search '97 summaries of 50 documents

ACL/EACL'97, Intelligent Scalable Text Summarization Workshop
AAAI'98, Intelligent Text Summarization Spring Symposium

Projects, products

AnchorPage; evaluation (Iconovex)
ConText; highlights (Oracle)
Extractor; demo on JAIR articles (NRC)
FERRET [sigir91.html] (CMU)
Island InText (Island Software)
products, demos (Lingsoft)
NetSumm; highlights (British Telecom)
SEARCH '97 (Verity Inc.)
SimSum; other summarization resources (Hannover)
SMART code (Cornell)
WebCompass; download demo; highlights (QuarterDeck)
WebSearch summarizing tool (InTEXT)
XLT; online tagger demo; highlights (XSoft; Xerox PARC)

Klaus Zechner: "A Literature Survey on Information Extraction and Text Summarization", "Fast Generation of Abstracts from General Domain Text Corpora by Extracting Relevant Sentences", "Automatic Text Abstracting by Selecting Relevant Passages" (CMU LTI)
Peter Turney: Keyword Extraction Applications (NRC IIT)
C.J. van Rijsbergen: "Information Retrieval" (Glasgow)
- Ch.2 Automatic Text Analysis [Ch.2.html]
CSLU:"Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology" (Oregon)
- 7.4 Summarization [ch7node6.html]
- 7.7 References [ch7node9.html]
W.J. Black: "Parsing, Linguistic Resources and Semantic Analysis for Abstracting and Categorization" (UMIST)
G7 Global Information Society: "Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom"
Stewart Baillie: research proposal [RP.html] (Melbourne)
Chris Paise: Extracting The Essence [paice.html] (ILASH)
Summarizing seminar: Computational Resources workshop [CR1.Marbury.html] (Saarbrucken)
BYTE: "Indexing gets smart'
Wendy Lehnert: Information Extraction [nlpie.html]
Jawad Berri, Emmanuel Carter, Jean-Pierre Descles, Agata Jackiewicz, Jean-Luc Minel: 'Filtrage automatique de Textes' {uuencoded MSWord}; en francais. [minel2.txt]

Updated by Stan Szpakowicz on February 26, 1998

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