Automatic text summarization: A comprehensive survey

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Highlights:

• Classifications and applications of text summarization systems are demonstrated.

• Automatic text summarization approaches and their methods are illustrated.

• Techniques (building blocks) to implement text summarization systems are exhibited.

• Standard datasets and text summarization evaluation methods are explored.

• Future research directions for automatic text summarization are presented.

摘要

•Classifications and applications of text summarization systems are demonstrated.•Automatic text summarization approaches and their methods are illustrated.•Techniques (building blocks) to implement text summarization systems are exhibited.•Standard datasets and text summarization evaluation methods are explored.•Future research directions for automatic text summarization are presented.

论文关键词:Automatic text summarization,Text summarization approaches,Text summarization techniques,Text summarization evaluation

论文评审过程:Received 11 October 2019, Revised 26 April 2020, Accepted 18 June 2020, Available online 11 July 2020, Version of Record 17 August 2020.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113679