Introducing the problem statement

At the beginning of the chapter, we already looked at an overview of the problem statement. Here, we will be delving into further details. We want to build an automatic text summarization application. We will be providing a medical transcription document as the input. Our goal is to generate the summary of this document. Note that here, we are going to provide a single document as the input, and as an output, we will be generating the summary of that single document. We want to generate an informative summary for the document. An informative summary is a type of summary where the summarization document is a substitute of the original document as far as the converging of information is concerned. This is because we are dealing with the medical domain.

Initially, we use extractive summarization methods in our approaches. We will be generating the extractive summary for a medical document. Later on in this chapter, we will be also developing a solution that...