Automatic text summarization in TIPSTER

Authors:
Thérèse Firmin;Inderjeet Mani
Affiliations:
Fort George G. Meade, Maryland;The MITRE Corporation, Reston, Virginia
Venue:
TIPSTER '98 Proceedings of a workshop on held at Baltimore, Maryland: October 13-15, 1998
Year:
1998

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Abstract

Automatic Text Summarization was added as a major research thrust of the TIPSTER program during TIPSTER Phase III, 1996-1998. It is a natural extension of the previously supported research efforts in Information Extraction (IE) and Information Retrieval (IR). There is considerable interest in automatically producing summaries due, in large part, to the growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web. The TIPSTER program sponsored seven research efforts into text summarization, all with different approaches to the problem.