A Grounded Theory Approach to Expert Summarizing

Intelligent Text Summarization

Volume

Papers from the 1998 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

1 report on an empirical approach to expert summarizing, emphasizing the qualitative modeling methods that shaped the system. In the framework of model-based knowledge engineering, the empirical grounded theory of summarizing is subsequently transferred to a small simulation system called SimSum (Simulation of Summarizing). SimSum shows that an empirical design of summarizing system is feasible, and it explains the human performance by means of a multimedia presentation.