Document Abstract

A document abstract is a document sction that contains a text summary (of the Document's content).

• Context:
  • It can be produced by a Document Abstract Creation Task.
  • It can be a part of a Periodical Index.
  • It can contain one or more Paragraphs.
  • It can be a Structured Abstract.
  • It can range from being an Informative Abstract to an Indicative Abstract.
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• Examples(s):
  • a Research Paper Abstract.
  • a Book Overview.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a News Story Summary.
  • a Contract Summary.
• See: Document Snippet, Document Summarization.

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References

2023

• (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_(summary) Retrieved:2023-9-16.
  • An abstract is a brief summary of a research article, thesis, review, conference proceeding, or any in-depth analysis of a particular subject and is often used to help the reader quickly ascertain the paper's purpose. When used, an abstract always appears at the beginning of a manuscript or typescript, acting as the point-of-entry for any given academic paper or patent application. Abstracting and indexing services for various academic disciplines are aimed at compiling a body of literature for that particular subject.

    The terms précis or synopsis are used in some publications to refer to the same thing that other publications might call an "abstract". In management reports, an executive summary usually contains more information (and often more sensitive information) than the abstract does.

2009

• http://library.fandm.edu/glossary.html
  • ABSTRACT: Summary of an article, book, or other written publication.
• http://www.lib.fsu.edu/help/libraryterms
  • ABSTRACT: a short summary of an article or book; abstracts are provided along with citation information in many periodical indexes or databases, and may be written by either the author or an indexer.

2007

• (Hjørland, 2007) ⇒ Birger Hjørland. (2007). “Core Concepts in Library and Information Science (LIS)."
  • Abstract.
  • http://www.db.dk/bh/Core%20Concepts%20in%20LIS/articles%20a-z/abstracts.htm
  • Abstracts are both a kind of document representation (a form of semantic condensation or text summarization of a document) and a kind of documents (cf., document typology), which contains such document representations.
  • As kinds of documents are abstracts forms of annotated bibliographies. They are typically current bibliographies, which provide short abstracts of the indexed documents. Synonymous terms are "Briefs", "Précis" and "Zentrallblätter". They are published in different media: Printed publications, on-line databases and CD-ROM databases.
  • Abstracts come in different genres. A differentiation have been made between informative abstracts, which summarizes the main conclusions of a document and indicative abstracts only providing clues about the content of the paper (see Fedosyuk, 1978). Recently has a further development of the informative abstract become common among many journals: the structured abstract. Journal of Documentation, for example, demands: "Authors must supply a structured abstract set out under 4-6 sub-headings: Purpose; Methodology/Approach; Findings; Research limitations/implications (if applicable); Practical implications (if applicable) and, the Originality/value of paper. Maximum is 250 words in total." (Journal of Documentation, 2005). This new trend may be associated with the trend known as evidence based practice and thus be an indication of an epistemological influence on criteria for manuscript design.
  • Another differentiation is between evaluative or critical abstracts on the one hand and non-evaluative abstracts on the other hand. Evaluative abstracts assess the methods, claims and results whereas non-evaluative abstracts just summarizes parts of the document.
  • Today contain many scientific papers an author-produced abstracts. This has not always been the case, and the information profession has contributed to the propagation of this practice. Such author-abstracts are often reproduced without changes in abstract journals. It is a custom that abstracts written by other than the author are signed. Most journals, but not all journals, allow their abstracts to be re-used by abstracting services.

1980

• (Porter, 1980) ⇒ Martin F. Porter. (1980). “An Algorithm for Suffix Stripping.” In: Program, 14(3):130–137.
  • QUOTE: Removing suffixes by automatic means is an operation which is especially useful in the field of information retrieval. In a typical IR environment, one has a collection of documents, each described by the words in the document title and possibly by words in the document abstract.

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