Language-independent Techniques for Automated Text Summarization (original) (raw)

Text summarization is the process of distilling the most important information from source/sources to produce an abridged version for a particular user/users and task/tasks. Automatically generated summaries can significantly reduce the information overload on intelligence analysts in their daily work. Moreover, automated text summarization can be utilized for automated classification and filtering of text documents, information search over the Internet, content recommendation systems, online social networks, etc.