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Text Summarization

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Document summarization

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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].

Historical Background

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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  1. Baidu, Inc., Beijing City, China

    Dou Shen

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Microsoft Research Asia, Microsoft Corporation, 5F, Beijing Sigma Center, No. 49, Zhichun Road, 100080, Beijing, Haidian, China

    Zheng Chen

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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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    Text Summarization
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_424-3

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