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From: chrisb@cs.cornell.edu (Chris Buckley)
Subject: Re: Books on Intro. natural language proces
Message-ID: <1994Sep29.150513.17909@cs.cornell.edu>
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 15:05:13 GMT
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pfeiffer@thales.informatik.uni-mannheim.de (Silvia Pfeiffer) writes:


>In article <1994Sep27.020633.16498@cs.cornell.edu> chrisb@cs.cornell.edu (Chris Buckley) writes:
>   (See our "Automatic Analysis,
>   Theme Generation, and Summarization of Machine-Readable Texts" by
>   Salton,Allan,Buckley,Singhal, in Science, June 3rd,1994.)

>Dear Chris,

>is it possible to get this article from the net (via ftp)? I am most
>interested in it. I am thinking of a system that translates natural
>language to machine-readable text and uses "your" theme generation and
>summarization in order to create a content review.

Copyright restrictions prohibit making it available electronically
(Science is pickier than some other journals).

James Allan's thesis (allan@cs.cornell.edu) should be available
electronically as a tech report sometime in November.  While it
doesn't go deeply into the summarization aspects ...
    The thesis does, however, talk about ways to discover some types of
    relationships between documents with purely statistical methods.  That
    aspect of it is very relevant to the comp.ai.nat-lang discussion.
                            -- james
So you should have some more details in a few weeks.
                                        ChrisB
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