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FROM EXTRACTS TO ABSTRACTS: HUMAN SUMMARY PRODUCTION OPERATIONS FOR COMPUTER-AIDED SUMMARISATION

This paper presents a classification and evaluation of human summary production operations used to transform extracts into more concise, coherent and readable abstracts. Computeraided summarisation (CAS) allows a user to post-edit an automatically produced extract to improve it. However, unlike other areas of summarisation, no guidance is available to users of CAS systems to help them complete their task. The research reported here addresses this by examining linguistic operations used by a human summariser to transform extracts into abstracts. An evaluation proves that the operations are useful; they do improve coherence when applied to extracts.