A Method for Abstracting Newspaper Articles by Using Surface Clues
| Author(s) : | Hideo Watanabe, |
| Publisher : | N/A |
| Publication Date : | 1996 |
| ISSN : | N/A |
| Abstract : | This paper describes a system which automatically creates an abstract of a newspaper article by selecting important sentences of a given text. To determine the importance of a sentence, several superficial features are considered, and weights for features are determined by multiple-regression analysis of a hand processed cor-pus. 1, |