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Automatic summarisation: 25 years On

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2019

Constantin Orăsan
Constantin Orăsan
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Research Institute in Information and Language Processing, University of Wolverhampton, UK
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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.

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Automatic summarisation Survey Evaluation
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Natural Language Engineering , Volume 25 , Issue 6 , November 2019 , pp. 735 - 751
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