Using Leading Text for News Summaries: Evaluation Results and Implications for Commercial Summarization Applications

Leading text extracts created to support some online Boolean retrieval goals are evaluated for their acceptability as news document summaries. Results are presented and discussed from the perspective of commercial summarization technology needs.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Mark Wasson
• Keywords: ACL 1998, ACL 2007, Boolean Retrieval Goals, Commercial Summarization Technology, Text Extracts