Text Summarization — Extractive and Abstractive

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.