Summarization from medical documents: a survey
Artificial Intelligence in MedicinePublished 14 December 2004Open access
Stergos Afantenos, Vangelis Karkaletsis, Panagiotis Stamatopoulos
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The paper discusses thoroughly the promising paths for future research in medical documents summarization, including the issue of scaling to large collections of documents in various languages and from different media, on personalization issues, on portability to new sub-domains, and on the integration of summarization technology in practical applications.
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The paper discusses thoroughly the promising paths for future research in medical documents summarization. It mainly focuses on the issue of scaling to large collections of documents in various languages and from different media, on personalization issues, on portability to new sub-domains, and on the integration of summarization technology in practical applications.
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