Semantic Graph Reduction Approach for Abstractive Text Summarization

One of the important Natural Language Processing applications is Text Summarization, which helps users to manage the vast amount of information available, by condensing documents' content and extracting the most relevant facts or topics included. Text Summarization can be classified according to the type of summary: extractive, and abstractive. Extractive summary is the procedure of identifying important sections of the text and producing them verbatim while abstractive summary aims to produce important material in a new generalized form. In this paper, a novel approach is presented to create an abstractive summary for a single document using a rich semantic graph reducing technique. The approach summaries the input document by creating a rich semantic graph for the original document, reducing the generated graph, and then generating the abstractive summary from the reduced graph. Besides, a simulated case study is presented to show how the original text was minimized to fifty percent.