An Overview of Text Summarization

Abstract

The amount of e-information available has increased greatly over the past few decades. As the vast amount of information is available for every theme on Internet, shortening the information in the form of summary would immensely benefit readers. Hence, the natural language processing research community is developing new meth- ods for summarizing the text mechanically. Automatic text sum- marization system produces a summary, i.e. short length text that includes all the significant information for the article. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of contemporary text summariza- tion of extractive and abstractive approaches.