From Extractive to Abstractive Summarization: A Journey

• Main Authors: Mehta, Parth (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Majumder, Prasenjit (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Computer software-Reusability.; Computer communication systems.; Application software.; Performance and Reliability.; Computer Communication Networks.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).

This book describes recent advances in text summarization, identifies remaining gaps and challenges, and proposes ways to overcome them. It begins with one of the most frequently discussed topics in text summarization - 'sentence extraction' -, examines the effectiveness of current techniq...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction.-Related Work
• Corpora and Evaluation for Text Summarization
• Domain Specific Summarization
• Improving sentence extraction through rank aggregation
• Leveraging content similarity in summaries for generating better ensembles.-Neural model for sentence compression
• Conclusion.