"This book evaluates some of the existing approaches to information retrieval and summarization of digital documents, as well as highlighting current research and future developments"--
Computer scientists and others involved with language processing explore the current state of general-purpose and domain-specific document summarization methods, social networks and web news summarization, and multilingual summarization. Their topics include the classification of sentence ranking methods for multi-document summarization, interactive summaries by multi-pole information extraction for the archaeological domain, evaluation metrics for the summarization task, novel text summarization techniques for contextual advertising, new formats and interfaces for multi-document summarization and evaluation, aspects of multilingual news summarization, and language-independent summarization approaches. Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
The prevalence of digital documentation presents some pressing concerns for efficient information retrieval in the modern age. Readers want to be able to access the information they desire without having to search through a mountain of unrelated data, so algorithms and methods for effectively seeking out pertinent information are of critical importance. Innovative Document Summarization Techniques: Revolutionizing Knowledge Understanding evaluates some of the existing approaches to information retrieval and summarization of digital documents, as well as current research and future developments. This book serves as a sounding board for students, educators, researchers, and practitioners of information technology, advancing the ongoing discussion of communication in the digital age.