Text Summarization in Python: Extractive vs. Abstractive techniques revisited

Pranay, Aman and Aayush gensim, Student Incubator, summarization

This blog is a gentle introduction to text summarization and can serve as a practical summary of the current landscape. It describes how we, a team of three students in the RaRe Incubator programme, have experimented with existing algorithms and Python tools in this domain. We compare modern extractive methods like LexRank, LSA, Luhn and Gensim’s existing TextRank summarization module …