Abstract: In recent years, there has been a explosion in the amount of text data from a variety of sources. This volume of text is an invaluable source of information and knowledge which needs to be effectively summarized to be useful. Text summarization is the task of shortening a text document into a condensed version keeping all the important information and content of the original document. In this review, the main approaches to automatic text summarization are described. We review the different processes for summarization and describe the effectiveness and shortcomings of the different methods.

Mehdi Allahyari, Seyedamin Pouriyeh, Mehdi Assefi, Saeid Safaei, Elizabeth D. Trippe, Juan B. Gutierrez and Krys Kochut. “Text Summarization Techniques: A Brief Survey”. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA) 8.10 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.081052

@article{Allahyari2017,
title = {Text Summarization Techniques: A Brief Survey},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2017.081052},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.081052},
year = {2017},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {8},
number = {10},
author = {Mehdi Allahyari and Seyedamin Pouriyeh and Mehdi Assefi and Saeid Safaei and Elizabeth D. Trippe and Juan B. Gutierrez and Krys Kochut}
}