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  <Title>A Formal Model of Text Summarization Based on Condensation Operators of a Terminological Logic</Title>
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5 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have * introduced an approach to text summarlzatlon which m sohdly rooted m the formal semantics of the underlying terminological representahon system In tins approach, text summanzahon is an operator-based transformation process on knowledge representahon structures that have been derived by the text understanding system Currently, the summanzatlon process considers only activity and connectlvlty patterns m the text knowledge base In the future, we plan to augment these criteria and to ex- null plmt text coherence patterns for summarization (cf (Hahn 90) and related proposals by (Alterman 86)) The zmplementahon of the summarization system and Its associated text understemder have proved functional with expository texts m the domenn of Information technology as well as with texts from the legal and business domains</Paragraph>
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