Automatic summarisation: 25 years On. (November 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Orăsan, Constantin
• Is Part Of: Natural language engineering. Volume 25:Part 6(2019)
• Page Start: 735
• Page End: 751
• Publication Date: 2019-11
• Subjects: Automatic summarisation, -- Survey, -- Evaluation; Natural language processing (Computer science) -- Periodicals; Software engineering -- Periodicals; 006.35
• DOI: 10.1017/S1351324919000524
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1351-3249

Abstract

Abstract: Automatic text summarisation is a topic that has been receiving attention from the research community from the early days of computational linguistics, but it really took off around 25 years ago. This article presents the main developments from the last 25 years. It starts by defining what a summary is and how its definition changed over time as a result of the interest in processing new types of documents. The article continues with a brief history of the field and highlights the main challenges posed by the evaluation of summaries. The article finishes with some thoughts about the future of the field.