Difference between revisions of "Text summarization"

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* News In Essence - [http://www.newsinessence.com]
 
* News In Essence - [http://www.newsinessence.com]
  
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== References / Links ==
 
* A bit outdated website with some references related to text summarization - [http://www.summarization.com/]
 
* A bit outdated website with some references related to text summarization - [http://www.summarization.com/]
 
* Wikipedia article on automatic summarization - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_summarization]
 
* Wikipedia article on automatic summarization - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_summarization]

Revision as of 15:52, 30 September 2010

Summary

Text Summarization (also known as summarization, and automatic summarization) is a natural language processing task which focuses on creating shortened versions of texts with computer algorithms/software that retain the important points of the original piece of text.

Common Approaches

Some common approaches to text summarization include the following:

Challenges / Issues

Some major challenges in text summarization

Example Systems

  • LexRank - [1]
  • MEAD summarizer - [2]
  • News In Essence - [3]

References / Links

  • A bit outdated website with some references related to text summarization - [4]
  • Wikipedia article on automatic summarization - [5]