Structured abstracts

[Peter Jacso]

Yes, Jim, I am the one. I have not done much lately, except looking at
some software which create abstracts from the text you throw at them -
with surprisingly good results and flexibility (creating summaries in
proportion to the length of the original text, or set by the user, etc.).
I have spent msot of my time lately in developing what I call PolySearch
Engines. I just posted today one for Biographies (go to
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jacso/extra/
This may not be of interest to you, but I am using the technology (not
publicly though) to find abstracts for the same articles to show to my
students the eneormous differnces between say the ususally excellenet
Wilson abstracts as opposed to the poor abstracts in the PASCAL database.
On second thought, I do discuss the quality of abstract in my book about
the evaluation of the quality of textual databases and show a number of
examples in that chapter.
thanks
best
peter

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, J. Hartley wrote:

> Peter
>
> Here it is!
>
> There may be some confusion because I thought I had already sent it to you
> with a message asking if you were the Peter Jacso of Tenopir and Jacso - a
> paper I often cite!  (I sent this message to another Peter by mistake!)
> Have you done any more work on the readability of journals etc?
>
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Jacso <jacso at HAWAII.EDU>
> To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU <SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU>
> Date: 31 March 2003 20:27
> Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Structured abstracts
>
>
> >thanks Jim, e-mail attachment is fine.
> >thnaks
> >peter
> >
> >On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, J. Hartley wrote:
> >
> >> I can send it snail mail - printed offprint - or via e-mail attachment.
> Let
> >> me know which you prefer!
> >>
> >> Jim
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Peter Jacso <jacso at HAWAII.EDU>
> >> To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU <SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU>
> >> Date: 31 March 2003 11:42
> >> Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Structured abstracts
> >>
> >>
> >> >Sir, I am interested in that article. Could you please send it? if snail
> >> >mail is needed this is my postal address
> >> >322 Aoloa Street 709
> >> >Kailua, HI 96734
> >> >thanks
> >> >peter jacso
> >> >http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jacso
> >> >
> >> >On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, J. Hartley wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Colleagues might like to know that my latest paper on structured
> >> abstracts
> >> >> has now been published (Science Communication, 24, 3, 366-379).  This
> one
> >> >> compares 24 traditional abstracts with 24 structured ones based on
> >> abstracts
> >> >> from the Journal of Educational Psychology and shows several benefits
> for
> >> >> the latter.  Copies of the paper are available from me:
> >> >> j.hartley at psy.keele.ac.uk
> >> >>
> >>
>