Synopsis
Information provision as one of the most important
concerns in the training of library and informatics-experts requires the
thorough knowledge of professional texts used in different fields. This is,
however, due to the sheer number of publications appearing in various
periodicals, a difficult goal to accomplish; making a thorough study of the
information conveyed there virtually impossible. Consequently, the importance
of research abstracts has significantly increased, as the former allows the
reader or the librarian to study the most relevant sections of given articles
or essay in a fraction of a time as required in case of reading the whole work.
Moreover, by the help of this method, overlaps or redundancies are eliminated.
Furthermore, the increasing number of publications poses a difficult challenge
for the documentation preparation experts as well.
In
the following section I would like to examine the possibilities and limitations
of the automation of research abstract preparation in addition to surveying the
procedures and technological implementations facilitating the compilation of
research abstracts in the Hungarian language.