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.