چکیده (انگلیسی):

It has been more than 50 years since the initial investigation on
automatic text summarization was started. Various techniques have been
successfully used to extract the important contents from text document to
represent document summary. In this study, we review some of the studies
that have been conducted in this still-developing research area. It covers the
basics of text summarization, the types of summarization, the methods that
have been used and some areas in which text summarization has been
applied. Furthermore, this paper also reviews the significant efforts which
have been put in studies concerning sentence extraction, domain specific
summarization and multi document summarization and provides the
theoretical explanation and the fundamental concepts related to it. In
addition, the advantages and limitations concerning the approaches
commonly used for text summarization are also highlighted in this study.