Social Media Summarization

Abstract

Social media is an important venue for information sharing, discussions or conversations on a variety of topics and events generated or happening across the globe. Application of automated text summarization techniques on the large volume of information piled up in social media can produce textual summaries in a variety of flavors depending on the difficulty of the use case. This chapter talks about the available set of techniques to generate summaries from different genres of social media text with an extensive introduction to extractive summarization techniques.