A Systematic Survey of Text Summarization Techniques

Text Summarization is a technique in which a long, lengthy document can be converted into a brief document while maintaining the crux of information in it. A lot of progress has been made over the past few years in this domain, researchers have been able to perform summarization on single paged as well as multi-page documents. However, the biggest challenge that remains so far is the correct ordering of sentences and then forming a coherent summary from those sentences. In this paper, we endeavor to provide a detailed comparison of the different techniques of summarization put forward by researchers. This paper highlights the different approaches used, along with the results and disadvantages of the same. This will help the researchers to learn more about the topic in a comprehensive manner and identify gaps in approach to work on them and come up with novel approaches to address the issue.