Summarization of documents by finding key sentences based on social network analysis

Abstract

Finding key sentences or paragraphs from a document is an important and challenging problem. In recent years, the amount of text data has grown astronomically and this growth has produced a great demand for text summarization. In the present study, we propose a new text summarization process by text mining and social network methods. To demonstrate the applicability of the proposed summarization procedure, we used Martin Luther King, Jr’s public speech