(from Udo Hahn's presentation at Automatic Summarization Workshop, Seattle, 2000)
Early Extraction 1955 - 1973
- Luhn, 1955, lexical occuence stats
- Edmundson, 1969, positional indicators, lexical cues, cuewords, cue phrases
- Mathais, 1973, cohesion streamlining
Linguistic Approaches 1961 - 1979
Artificial Intelligence Approaches 1980's
- 1982. DeJong. FRUMP, using scripts
- 1985. SUSY, logic and production rules
- 1988. Reiner and Hahn.TOPIC. frames and semantic networks
- 1989. Rau et al. Hybrid Representations
"Renaissance" - 1990's
- Recurrence of statistical techniques
- hybrid approaches