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Automated text summarization and the SUMMARIST system

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This paper consists of three parts: a preliminary typology of summaries in general; a description of the current and planned modules and performance of the SUMMARIST automated multilingual text summarization system being built sat ISI, and a discussion of three methods to evaluate summaries.

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    TIPSTER '98: Proceedings of a workshop on held at Baltimore, Maryland: October 13-15, 1998
    October 1998
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