Introduction to Automatic Text Summarization

Sifting through lots of documents can be difficult and time consuming. Without an abstract or summary, it can take minutes just to figure out what the heck someone is talking about in a paper or report. And, if you need to get through hundreds of documents – good luck. Summarizer is an algorithm that extracts sentences from a text document, determines which are most important, and returns them in a readable and structured way. Automatic text summarization is part of the field of natural language processing, which is how computers can analyze, understand, and derive meaning from human language.