Comparative Study of Text Summarization Methods

Abstract

Text summarization is one of application of natural language processing and is becoming more popular for information condensation. Text summarization is a process of reducing the size of original document and producing a summary by retaining important information of original document. This paper gives comparative study of various text summarization methods based on different types of application. The paper discusses in detail two main categories of text summarization methods these are extractive and abstractive summarization methods. The paper also presents taxonomy of summarization systems and statistical and linguistic approaches for summarization.