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  <Title>Goal-Directed Approach for Text Summarization</Title>
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2 The Goal-Directed Summarization
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Sunnnanes n/thls system may differ from the general notlon of a sunmlaly that covers all toplcs described in the ongmal text A summary m defined as a set of extlacted sentences that gives some idea to the leader of the contents of a text, the reader m able to determine whether the text ms wolth reading ol not based on the smnmary Under thin defimtlon, a sunnnary m effective if the extract Includes the author's intentlon or leqmred mformatlon of the reader by the fewest numbel of sentences posslble These infomlatlon should be included and satisfied by extracted sentences ale called the 'goals' The summarizatlon plocess Is graded by the goals m called 'goaldnected' Figure 1 shows the system archltecture of a general goal dlrected summarlzatmn system Thls</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> system consists of a goal detection and sentence selectmn process by Informativeness evaluation The 'goal-directed' method may be sound overstated, because the current experimental system handles only the headhnes,' htles and some text property expressions However, the 'goal-directed' } method is named, as the first step toward real|zing } a context based summarmatmn system Figure 2</Paragraph>
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