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This article is an overview of the literature on narrative summarization. The capacity to summarize is a fundamental property of intelligence and has significance for several areas of artificial intelligence research and development. The first part of the paper includes a description of four critical features of a summary. The bulk of this review is concerned with sorting available summarization frameworks and techniques. A latter section of the paper describes the significance of summarization technology to three current topics in artificial intelligence: explanation-based learning, case-based reasoning, and plan evaluation.
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Alterman, R. Understanding and summarization. Artif Intell Rev 5, 239–254 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00141756
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