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Sacks was the author of a number of nonfiction books, beginning with Awakenings (1973) and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985), which use case histories interwoven with explanatory narrative to describe a range of brain conditions that result in unusual manifestations of neurologic deficits, in much the way Weber does in The Echo Maker.
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Lament for a Maker is a 1938 detective novel by the British writer Michael Innes. [1] It is the third in his series featuring John Appleby , a young Detective Inspector in the Metropolitan Police .
Star Maker is a science fiction novel by British writer Olaf Stapledon, published in 1937.Continuing the theme of the author's previous book, Last and First Men (1930)—which narrated a history of the human species over two billion years—it describes a history of life in the universe, dwarfing the scale of the earlier work.
Abstractive summarization methods generate new text that did not exist in the original text. [12] This has been applied mainly for text. Abstractive methods build an internal semantic representation of the original content (often called a language model), and then use this representation to create a summary that is closer to what a human might express.
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Multi-document summarization is an automatic procedure aimed at extraction of information from multiple texts written about the same topic. The resulting summary report allows individual users, such as professional information consumers, to quickly familiarize themselves with information contained in a large cluster of documents.
Seventh Son (1987) is an alternate history/fantasy novel by American writer Orson Scott Card.It is the first book in Card's The Tales of Alvin Maker series and is about Alvin Miller, the seventh son of a seventh son.