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Summarization apparatus and method

  • US 6,205,456 B1
  • Filed: 01/13/1998
  • Issued: 03/20/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/17/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An apparatus for summarizing a document in support of selection, access, edition, and management of the document readable by a computer, comprising:

  • a focused information relevant portion extraction unit extracting a portion related to two types of focused information in a document to be summarized based on the two types of focused information comprising user-focused information as information focused by a user who uses a summary, and author-focused information as information emphasized by an author of the document to be summarized; and

    a summary generation unit generating the summary of the document to be summarized based on an extraction result from said focused information relevant portion extraction unit.

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