Knowledge-aware Document Summarization: A Survey of Knowledge, Embedding Methods and Architectures

Document Summarization (DS) aims to generate an abridged version of single or multiple topic-related texts as concise and coherent as possible while preserving the salient and factually consistent information [1]. The document summarization task with a single input document is known as the Single Document Summarization (SDS). By contrast, the Multi-Document Summarization (MDS) task emphasizes synthesizing a large number of topic-related documents to generate a compressed summary from various times and perspectives. In addition, there are two general methods in document summarization: 1) the Extractive Document Summarization (EDS) method respects the lexicon of the original text, regarding the summary formation is verbatim by key words and phrases selected from the source corpus; and 2) the Abstractive Document Summarization (ADS) method respects the semantics of the original text, regarding the summary construction is by rephrasing texts according to the comprehension of text substances. Generally, a document summarization model is to achieve the following goals [2]: G1. Coverage: A document summarization model aims to generate a comprehensive summary that covers all the main and noteworthy contents of the input text(s); G2. Non-redundancy: A document summarization model aims to generate a precise and concise summary without any redundant or meaninglessly repeated information; G3.