Automatic Text Document Summarization Based on Machine Learning

Abstract

The need for automatic generation of summaries gained importance with the unprecedented volume of information available in the Internet. Automatic systems based on extractive summarization techniques select the most significant sentences of one or more texts to generate a summary. This article makes use of Machine Learning techniques to assess the quality of the twenty most referenced strategies used in extractive summarization, integrating them in a tool. Quantitative and qualitative aspects were considered in such assessment demonstrating the validity of the proposed scheme. The experiments were performed on the CNN-corpus, possibly the largest and most suitable test corpus today for benchmarking extractive summarization strategies.