Understanding the basics of summarization
In this section, we will be focusing on the basic concepts of summarization. In today's fast-growing information age, text summarization has become an important tool. It will be difficult for humans to generate a summary for large text documents. There are lots of documents available on the web today. So, we need a solution that can automatically generate a summary for documents efficiently, accurately, and intelligently. This task is referred to as automatic text summarization.
Automatic text summarization is all about finding relevant information from the large text document in a small amount of time. Basically, there are two types of summarization:
Extractive summarization
Abstractive summarization
Let's look at the types of summarization one by one.
Extractive summarization
In the extractive summarization method, we will be generating a summary of the document by selecting words, phrases, or sentences from the original document. We will be using concepts...
