# Text Summarization Techniques: A Brief Survey

**Authors:** Mehdi Allahyari, Seyedamin Pouriyeh, Mehdi Assefi, Saeid Safaei, Elizabeth D. Trippe, Juan B. Gutierrez, Krys Kochut  
**arXiv:** [1707.02268](https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.02268)  
**Date:** 2017-07-07  
**Summary page:** https://www.summarizepaper.com/en/paper/1707.02268v3/

## Key points

- Authors provide a comprehensive overview of text summarization techniques
- Discuss the increasing volume of textual data and its potential for knowledge and insights
- Effective summarization is necessary to make information truly useful
- Explore main approaches to automatic text summarization
- Evaluate effectiveness and limitations of these approaches
- Review serves as a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners in the field

## Summary

In their paper titled "Text Summarization Techniques: A Brief Survey," authors Mehdi Allahyari, Seyedamin Pouriyeh, Mehdi Assefi, Saeid Safaei, Elizabeth D. Trippe, Juan B. Gutierrez, and Krys Kochut provide a comprehensive overview of text summarization techniques. They discuss the increasing volume of textual data from various sources in recent years and its potential for knowledge and insights. However, effective summarization is necessary to make this information truly useful. The authors explore the main approaches to automatic text summarization and evaluate their effectiveness and limitations. This review serves as a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners in the field seeking to efficiently extract key information from large volumes of text.