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Text Summarization

Automatic text summarization is a natural-language-processing task that condenses long documents into shorter summaries while preserving their key information. It works through one of two families of approaches — extractive summarization, which selects the most important spans from the source, or abstractive summarization, which generates new text. The field was consolidated by Nenkova and McKeown (2011), and sequence-to-sequence models such as BART (Lewis et al., 2020) advanced the abstractive side.

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Automatic Text Summarization
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / text-mining
  • Nenkova, A. & McKeown, K. (2011). Automatic Summarization. Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval. · DOI 10.1561/1500000015
  • Lewis, M. et al. (2020). BART: Denoising Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training for Natural Language Generation, Translation, and Comprehension. ACL. · DOI 10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.703
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