A Survey of Extractive and Abstractive Text Summarization Techniques

The existence of the World Wide Web has caused an information explosion. Readers are overloaded with lengthy text documents where a shorter version would suffice. All computer users, be it professionals or novice users, are particularly affected by this predicament. There exists an urgent need for the discovery of knowledge embedded in digital documents. This paper intends to investigate techniques and methods used by researchers for automatic text summarization. Special attention is paid to Bio-inspired methods for text summarization.