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Abstract and the A rt of Abstracting. What is an Abstract?. Abstract. signifies an abbreviated, accurate representation of a document without added interpretation or criticism and without distinction as to who wrote the abstract (ISO). Abstract.
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Abstract signifies an abbreviated, accurate representation of a document without added interpretation or criticism and without distinction as to who wrote the abstract (ISO)
Abstract “Brief but accurate representation of contents of a document” (Lancaster, 2003)
Abstract “..concise representation in the style of the original document” (Rowley, 1992)
Abstract “is a brief summary of a research article, …” (Wikipedia)
Abstract “...Quite short text” (Guichat and Menou, 1983)
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Qualities of Abstract Purpose: The format must facilitate the skimming of a large number of abstracts
Abstract from Lat. abstractus Abs+tractus
Abs+tractus Abstract is the concept that is drawn away from a material object by our mind
(Pollok, 1948) (Picasso, 1943) (Mondrian, 1925) (Monet, 1948)
Abstract is the concept that is drawn away froma material object by our mind Toro 5 (Picasso, 1945)
Abstract is the concept that is drawn away froma material object by our mind Toro 5 (Picasso, 1945)
Abstract is the concept that is drawn away froma material object by our mind Toro 9 (Picasso, 1945)
Abstract is the concept that is drawn away froma material object by our mind Toro 12 (Picasso, 1945)
Abstract is the concept that is drawn away from a material object by our mind Art of abstracting is prehistoric The cave of Lescaux, France 18.000 B.C.
In Information science An Abstract is an, accurate representation of a information without added interpretation or criticism and without distinction as to who wrote the abstract An extract is created by drawing sentences from the document, whereas an abstract is a new piece of text A summary is a restatement of the document’s salient findings, whereas an abstract should be a self contained unit
“...If the art of abstracting is the art of finding the concept of the document...”(Cremmins, 1983)And“...if Terms, letters, words, sentences are concepts...”(Khun, 1990)
Is really possible to weight a Concept? 2) Is the process of abstraction in art and in writing comparable? 3) If an abstract is different from an extract or a summary, could the abstracting process be automatic?
Could a computer system...1. read the document to be abstracted2. analyse the document3. apply a set of selection rules to produce the abstract4. format the resulting abstract and5. print the the abstract ...like humans do?