The Text Summarization project

Université d'Ottawa (o)

University of Ottawa
Knowledge Acquisition & Machine Learning
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The Text Summarization Project

The parent project: Intelligent Information Access

People in or close to the TS project | Local documents

People in and close to the TS project

Ken Barker (UofO KAML lab) [NLP]

Caroline Barrière (UofO KAML lab) [NLP]

Martin Brooks (NRC IIT)

Yllias Chali (University of Lethbridge) [NLP]

Terry Copeck (UofO KAML lab) [NLP]

Berry Debruijn (UofO KAML lab)

Jean-Francois Delannoy (RES Int'l) [NLP]

Rob Holte (UofO KAML lab)

Mario Jarmasz (UofO KAML lab)

Chris Lankester (UofO KAML lab)

Joel Martin (NRC IIT)

Stan Matwin (UofO KAML lab)

Stan Szpakowicz (UofO KAML lab) [NLP]

Peter Turney (NRC IIT)

Local documents

[1999] Materials for the Question-Answering Competition
[1998] The design of a configurable summarizer (a technical report, PostScript)
[1998] J-F Delannoy's list of relevant CFPs
[1996] An early experiment (a technical report, PostScript)
[1996] Research on Text Summarization (fragments of a grant proposal, HTML)

Assorted links (bracketed links access local files; others go to the authoring site)

Reference lists (including some live links)

Berry deBruijn's annotated bibliography on IR. Includes links to authors' homepages. (UofO)

A slightly annotated review of literature on text summarization, brought up to Summer 1998 (UofO)

Peter Turney's annotated list of literature on summarization and keyphrase extraction [tslit.html] (NRC IIT)

Summarization reference list [alphalist.html] (Sheffield)

SFgate bibiographic search engine [textSummCites] (Dortmund)

Richard Tucker's suggestions [tucker.html] (Cambridge)

local compilations: for the proposal, current searching

Sites

ELSEnet [ELSEnet.html] (Edinburgh:1996)
Applied Linguistics Virtual Library [AppLingBBK] (Birkbeck)
Bibliometrics, Scientometrics & Informetrics, Information Sciences [Infosci1.html] WWW Virtual Library (CRRM)
Corpus Research (Birmingham)
collocation resources [colloc.html] (UIUC)
Database Systems & Logic Programming Bibliography Server: search authors
Conceptual Graphs

Researchers (Email links in italics)

Jose Abragos (Lisbon)
Maria Aretoulaki (Erlangen)
Eric Bloedorn (MITRE)
Branimir Boguraev (Apple)
Jaime Carbonell (CMU)
Claire Cardie (Cornell)
Jim Cowie (NMSU CRL)
Michael Elhadad (Ben-Gurion)
Brigitte Endres-Niggemeyer (Hannover)
Gregor Erbach (DFKI)
Robert Futrelle (Northeastern)
Udo Hahn (Freiburg)
Eduard Hovy (USC ISI)
Frances Johnson (Manchester)
Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Grenoble)
Hongyan Jing (Columbia)
Mark Kantrowicz (Justsystem)
Chris Kennedy (Northwestern)
Liz Liddy (Textwise)
Gabriel Pereira Lopes (Lisbon)
Kavi Mahesh (NMSU CRL)
Inderjeet Mani (MITRE)
Daniel Marcu (USC ISI)
Mark Maybury (MITRE)
Michael Mauldin (CMU)
Kathleen McKeown (Columbia)
Dragomir Radev: Summarization resources (Columbia)
Naomi Sager (NYU)
Horacio Saggion (Montreal IRO)
Gabriele Scheler (TU Munich)
Amit Singhal (Cornell)
Anastasios Tombros (Glasgow)
Simone Teufel (Edinburgh)
Klaus Zechner (CMU)

Text sources

30 selected Brown documents in original and runon format. Yllias Chali's tools for working on them.
JAIR, Journal of A.I. Research. ASCII copies extracted from JAIR article LaTEX source, to Vol. 8 (1998).
Avalon: historical legal and diplomatic documents (Yale)
Berkeley documentary center (U.C.); New Brunswick (U.N.B); Saskatchewan (U.Sask)

Conferences

TIPSTER: SUMMAC, First Automatic Text Summarization Conference
(see also in Papers)
AAAI'98, Intelligent Text Summarization Spring Symposium
ACL/EACL'97, Intelligent Scalable Text Summarization Workshop, J-F Delannoy's tabulation of systems presented.
Summarizing for Intelligent Communication: abstracts, program (Dagstuhl 1993)

Projects, products

System Q[uirk] (Surrey)
Infoscan; download (Machina Sapiens)
NetOwl; download (IsoQuest)
Data Hammer; the MTT algorithm (IGC)
3D document visualization proposal (NRC IIT); Peter Young's Vineta (Durham)
Managing Gigabytes (RMIT)
ConText [context-faq.html]; highlights (Oracle)
keyword Extractor; demo on JAIR articles. (NRC)
Clustifier, a document clusterer. (NRC)
FERRET [sigir91.html] (CMU)
Island InText (Island Software)
products (Conexor [was: Lingsoft])
products, demos (Lingsoft)
ProSum for Word 6 and online; highlights (British Telecom)
SEARCH '97; Summarization (Verity Inc.)
SMART code (Cornell)
WebCompass; download demo; highlights (QuarterDeck)
WebSearch summarizing tool (InTEXT)
LinguistX (Inxight; Xerox PARC)

Papers and books

Summarization at Hannover:
- "Summarizing Information" by Springer;
- preliminary SimSum information;
- the definitively last SimSum paper
Klaus Zechner: (CMU LTI)
- "A Literature Survey on Information Extraction and Text Summarization"
- "Fast Generation of Abstracts from General Domain Text Corpora by Extracting Relevant Sentences"
- "Automatic Text Abstracting by Selecting Relevant Passages"
Christopher Khoo: The Use of Relation Matching in Information Retrieval (NTU Singapore)
Mark Maybury: Multimedia Summaries of Broadcast News (MITRE)
Peter Turney: Keyword Extraction Applications (NRC IIT)
C.J. van Rijsbergen: "Information Retrieval" [Preface.html]; Ch.2 Automatic Text Analysis [Ch.2.html] (Glasgow)
CSLU:"Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology" (Oregon)
- 7.4 Summarization [ch7node6.html]
- 7.7 References [ch7node9.html]
W.J. Black: "Parsing, Linguistic Resources and Semantic Analysis for Abstracting and Categorization" [Black.html] (UMIST)
G7 Global Information Society: "Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom"
Stewart Baillie: research proposal [RP.html] (Melbourne)
Chris Paise: Extracting The Essence [paice.html] (ILASH)
BYTE: "Indexing gets smart" [BYTE.html] (Jan 1995)
Jawad Berri, Emmanuel Carter, Jean-Pierre Descles, Agata Jackiewicz, Jean-Luc Minel: 'Filtrage automatique de Textes' {uuencoded MSWord}; en francais. [minel2.txt]
Daniel Bikel, Scott Miller, Richard Schwartz, Ralph Weischedel: Nymble: a High Performance Learning Name-Finder [anlp.corrected.ps]
Neurostudios Ltd: question typology
Karen Sparck Jones: Automatic summarising: factors and directions [9805011.ps]
Julio Gonzalo, Felisa Verdejo, Irina Chugur, Juan Cigarran: Indexing with WordNet synsets can improve Text Retrieval [colacl98.ps]
Michael McHale: A Comparison of WordNet and Roget's Taxonomy for Measuring Semantic Similarity [mchale.ps]
Oskari Heinonen: Optimal Multi-Paragraph Text Segmentation by Dynamic Programming [oh_ca98.ps]
Jean Carletta: Assessing agreement on classification tasks: the kappa statistic [squib.ps]
SUMMAC: the final report[summac-final-report-part2.ps.gz]

Updated by Stan Szpakowicz on December 18, 1998

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