A comparative study of machine generated extracts and human generated extracts

• Main Author: Yeo, Hwee Tiong.
• Other Authors: Hepworth, Mark
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Information systems::Information systems applications
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/20477
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

While it is a well acknowledged fact that abstracting can be more comprehensive and take into consideration the context in which the article is written, it is much more tedious than automated extraction in terms of time and effort and is subject to bias, fatigue, uniform approach, subjectivity etc.