1 Concepts of Text Summarization

DOI: 10.1201/9781003371199-1

1.1 Introduction

Text summarization is a process of grouping key points of the text from a large collection of text sources. The collection of sources can be reviews from the web, documents, blog posts, social media posts, news feeds, etc. Generating a concise and precise summary of voluminous texts is the key idea in summarization. This enables the summarization systems to focus on sections that convey useful information without loss of original meaning. These systems aim to transform lengthy documents into shortened versions. The purpose is to create a coherent and fluent summary which outlines the mandatory information in the document. Two major methods to generate summaries ...

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