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Abstraction Assistant: An automatic text abstraction system

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  • Wendy Wang
  • Drew Hwang

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In the interest of standardization and quality assurance, it is desirable for authors and staff of access services to follow the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) guidelines in preparing abstracts. Using the statistical approach an extraction system (the Abstraction Assistant) was developed to generate informative abstracts to meet the ANSI guidelines for structural content elements. The system performance is evaluated by comparing the system‐generated abstracts with the author's original abstracts and the manually enhanced system abstracts on three criteria: balance (satisfaction of the ANSI standards), fluency (text coherence), and understandability (clarity). The results suggest that it is possible to use the system output directly without manual modification, but there are issues that need to be addressed in further studies to make the system a better tool.

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  • Wendy Wang & Drew Hwang, 2010. "Abstraction Assistant: An automatic text abstraction system," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 61(9), pages 1790-1799, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamist:v:61:y:2010:i:9:p:1790-1799
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.21341
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