A survey on extractive text summarization

Abstract

Text Summarization is the process of obtaining salient information from an authentic text document. In this technique, the extracted information is achieved as a summarized report and conferred as a concise summary to the user. It is very crucial for humans to understand and to describe the content of the text. Text Summarization techniques are classified into abstractive and extractive summarization. The extractive summarization technique focuses on choosing how paragraphs, important sentences, etc produces the original documents in precise form. The implication of sentences is determined based on linguistic and statistical features. In this work, a comprehensive review of extractive text summarization process methods has been ascertained. In this paper, the various techniques, populous benchmarking datasets and challenges of extractive summarization have been reviewed. This paper interprets extractive text summarization methods with a less redundant summary, highly adhesive, coherent and depth information.