A Comprehensive Survey on Text Summarization Systems

Text summarization systems are among the most attractive research areas nowadays. Summarization systems offers the possibility of finding the main points of texts and so the user will spend less time on reading the whole document. Different types of summary might be useful in various applications and summarization systems can be categorized based on these types. This paper presents a taxonomy of summarization systems and defines the most important criteria for a summary which can be generated by a system. Additionally, different methods of text summarization as well as main steps for summarization process is discussed. we also go through main criteria for evaluating a text summarization.