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Text summarization is the process of distilling the most important information from a text to produce an abridged version for a particular task and user [9].
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With more and more digitalized text being available, especially with the development of the Internet, people are being overwhelmed with data. How to help people effectively and efficiently capture the information from the data becomes extremely important. Many techniques have been proposed for this goal and text summarization is one of them.
Text summarization in some form has been in existence since the 1950s [8]. Two main influences have dominated the research in this area, as summarized by Mani in [10]. Work in library science, office automation, and information retrieval has resulted in a focus on methods for producing extracts from scientific papers, including the use of “shallow” linguistic analysis and the use of term statistics. The other influence has been...
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Shen, D. (2017). Text Summarization. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_424-3
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