April 2018
Beginner to intermediate
282 pages
9h 53m
English
Summarization is a process to extract parts of the document that are deemed interesting by some metric such as tf-idf and join them to form a summary. Algorithms of this flavor are called extractive summarization. Another approach is to simply summarize as humans do, which is not to impose the extractive constraint and allow for rephrasing. This is called abstractive summarization. The following are the types of text summarization: