• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.62-69
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• 2009

The purpose of document summarization is to provide easy and quick understanding of documents by extracting summarized information from the documents produced by various application programs. In this paper, we propose a document summarization method that creates and analyzes a connection graph representing the similarity of keyword lists of sentences in a document taking into account the mean length(the number of keywords) of sentences of the document. We implemented a system that automatically generate a summary from a document using the proposed method. To evaluate the performance of the method, we used a set of 20 documents associated with their correct summaries and measured the precision, the recall and the F-measure. The experiment results show that the proposed method is more efficient compared with the existing methods.