Text Summarization Techniques: A Brief Survey

TL;DR

This survey reviews various automatic text summarization methods, discussing their processes, effectiveness, and limitations to help understand current techniques in managing large text data.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of existing text summarization approaches, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses in a structured manner.

Findings

Different summarization methods vary in effectiveness

Many approaches face challenges with information retention

The survey identifies gaps for future research

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. 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.