Text Summarization and Its Types

Abstract

Text summarization is a compressing technique of the original text to form a summary which will provide the same meaning and information as provided by the original version. Summarizer helps in saving time and increasing efficiency. This chapter gives the full insight of text summarizers, which can be categorized based on methodology, function and target reader, dimension, and language. Various researches have been conducted in the field of text summarization using different approaches. Consequently, the chapter aims to provide an overview of how text summarizers work with different methods and state their domain-oriented applications. Additionally, the authors discuss multi-lingual text summarization in detail. This chapter focuses on showing the effectiveness and shortcomings of text summarization approaches by comparing them.