Preface. Acknowledgements. Part I: The Indexing and Abstracting Environment. 1. The Need for Indexing and Abstracting Texts. 2. The Attributes of Text. 3. Text Representations and Their Use. Part II: Methods of Automatic Indexing and Abstracting. 4. Automatic Indexing: The Selection of Natural Language Index Terms. 5. Automatic Indexing: The Assignment of Controlled Language Index Terms. 6. Automatic Abstracting: The Creation of Text Summaries. Part III: Applications. 7. Text Structuring and Categorization When Summarizing Legal Cases. 8. Clustering of Paragraphs when Summarizing Legal Cases. 9. The Creation of Highlight Abstracts of Magazine Articles. 10. The Assignment of Subject Descriptors to Magazine Articles. Summary and Future Prospects. References. Subject Index