A Survey of Text Summarization Techniques [chapter]

Ani Nenkova, Kathleen McKeown
2012 Mining Text Data  
In today's fast growing information world, text summarization has become an important matter for interpreting text information. It is the process of summarizing a source text to a shorter version containing all its information and overall meaning. There are two methods of text summarization-Extractive and Abstractive summarization. This paper describes the extractive features of text summarization. Extractive summarization is the method of selecting sentences or paragraphs from the source
more » ... nt and concatenating them into shorter forms while abstractive summarization is the method of understanding the source document and generate its meaning into a shorter form. It also presents the evaluation measures of a text summarizer.
doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-3223-4_3 fatcat:dzt5m34qivgf3id763q2kwk2e4