近年來，越來越多的網際網路使用者利用搜尋引擎以找尋所需要的資訊，然而在搜尋引擎回傳的資訊中常包含大量不相關的資訊，讓使用者需花上許多不必要的時間來找出真正所需要的資訊。為了幫助使用者能夠快速的找到正確的資訊，此論文提出一個高效率的演算法DiSco (Distribution Scoring)，此演算法提供將搜尋引擎所回傳的資訊，自動產生摘要以回傳給使用者。DiSco以標題(Topic)作為摘要的單位，考慮字彙在文件中出現位置所代表的重要性。利用一評分機制設定權重，並依字彙的權重高低以擷取出標題集合作為文件摘要之用。
論文中使用Reuters-21578、Google Trends兩類資料集進行模擬實驗。衡量標準使用資料涵蓋率、資料重疊率以及計算時間。為了進一步提昇DiSco的處理效率，論文並根基於DiSco設計一更加快速的演算法，並討論在提昇計算效能後與文件涵蓋率、文件重疊率之間的權衡關係。
實驗結果顯示，本論文提出的自動產生摘要機制，在衡量標準上均有優異的表現。實驗結果亦顯示此機制所自動產生的標題集合，能更適合作為文件摘要之用，以更加滿足使用者快速得到資訊的需求。

In recently years, more and more Internet users rely on the search engines to help them find the information they need. However, the information they often consists of a large amount of irrelevant parts. It would often spend Internet users much time to achieve the correct information users need. To help Internet users find the information they are looking for quickly, an efficient algorithm for automatically building the summaries of a collection of documents found by a search engine in response to a user query, called DiSco (Distribution Scoring), is proposed. Topics are the basic units of the summaries DiSco generated. The main idea of DiSco is to consider the distribution of lexicons in a document, while the distribution is in practice thought to be related to different importance of lexicons. Using a scoring mechanism to score the weight of individual lexicons, DiSco could generate the topic sets to be the summaries of the document based on the weights.
To demonstrate the performance of the proposed algorithm in this thesis, Reuters-21578 text categorization collection and the search results of the hot queries from Google Trends are used in the simulation. Moreover, several measure methods such as coverage, overlap, and the computation time are employed in evaluating the performance of the proposed algorithm. To further improve the efficiency of the proposed algorithm, an alternative version of DiSco is designed and implemented. The tradeoff between computation time and the quality of the summarization is also discussed.
All the simulation results indicate that the proposed algorithm, which is based on the distribution of lexicons, outperforms all the existing algorithms in terms of not only the benchmark of data coverage rate, data overlap rate and the computation time. The simulation results also indicate that the topic sets generated by the proposed algorithm are better suited for document summarization to fit the requirement of getting information quickly.

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