-The SALOMON system automatically summarizes Belgian criminal cases in order to improve access to the large number of existing and future court decisions. SALOMON extracts relevant text units from the case text to form a case summary. Such a case profile facilitates the rapid determination of the relevance of the case or may be employed in text search. In a first important abstracting step SALO...

The ability to abstract information is a basic competency in today’s knowledge society, characterised by the mass diffusion of information and the need to manage and access it effectively. Yet abstracting is not an easy task, and requires a specific learning process. This paper examines the process of abstracting information from the perspective of competencies and skills based learning. The co...

Current search engines use sentence extraction techniques to produce snippet result summaries, which users may find less than ideal for determining the relevance of pages. Unlike extracting, abstracting programs analyse the context of documents and rewrite them into informative summaries. Our project aims to produce abstracting summaries which are coherent and easy to read thereby lessening use...

Secondary distribution of information is surely a relative if not an ambiguous term. The variety of topics covered in Theme Session #7 accentuates the recurring difficulty in trying to assign inflexible classifications to any information processing activities. Classically secondary distribution (publication) of information concerns those activities which follow primary publication (distribution...

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