The formation of abstracts by the selection of sentences. Part I. Sentence selection by men and machines
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There was very little agreement between the subjects and machine methods in their selection of representative sentences, and human selection of sentences is considerably more variable than the machine methods.
Abstract
Abstract Auto‐abstracting techniques based on high‐frequency words show an extremely small variation among themselves in the selection of sentences to form abstracts. Human selection of sentences, although less variable than chance expectancy, is considerably more variable than the machine methods. There was very little agreement between the subjects and machine methods in their selection of representative sentences.