Text Summarization

Text summarization is the process of converting a long text into its summary. Suppose we have a Wikipedia article and say we don't want to read the whole article—we just need an overview of the article. In this case, summarizing the Wikipedia article will help us get an overview of the article. Text summarization is widely used for a variety of applications, such as summarizing long documents, news articles, and blog posts, to name a few. In the text summarization task, given a long text, our goal is to convert the given long text into its summary as shown in the following figure:

Types of text summarization

There are two ways to perform text summarization:

• Extractive summarization

• Abstractive summarization

Now, let's explore extractive and abstractive summarization in detail. ...