Concept of Text Summarization

This technique, unlike extraction, relies on being able to paraphrase and shorten parts of a document using advanced natural language techniques. Abstractive summarization methods aim at producing summary by interpreting the text using advanced natural language techniques in order to generate a new shorter text -- parts of which may not appear as part of the original document, that conveys the most critical information from the original text, requiring rephrasing sentences and incorporating information from full text to generate summaries such as a human-written abstract usually does. In fact, an acceptable abstractive summary covers core information in the input and is linguistically fluent. Abstractive methods take advantage of recent developments in deep learning. Since it can be regarded as a sequence mapping task where the source text should be mapped to the target summary, abstractive methods take advantage of the recent success of the sequence to sequence models. These models consist of an encoder and a decoder, where a neural network reads the text, encodes it, and then generates target text. In general, building abstract summaries is a challenging task, which is relatively harder than data-driven approaches such as sentence extraction and involves complex language modeling. Thus, they are still far away from reaching human-level quality in summary generation, despite recent progress using neural networks inspired by the progress of neural machine translation and sequence to sequence models. The benefits of Automatic Text Summarization go beyond solving apparent problems.