Summarization of written documents has recently been a focus for much research in NLP e.g., Mani and Maybury, 1997;AAAI, 1998;Mani et al., 1998;ACL, 2000, to name some of the major events in this eld in the past few years.
very little attention has been given so far to the summarization of spoken language, e v en less of conversations vs. monological texts.