Tired of Reading Long Articles? Text Summarization will make your task easier!
This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon.
Introduction
Millions of web pages and websites exist on the Internet today. Going through a vast amount of content becomes very difficult to extract information on a certain topic. Google will filter the search results and give you the top ten search results, but often you are unable to find the right content that you need. There is a lot of redundant and overlapping data in the articles which leads to a lot of wastage of time. The better way to deal with this problem is to summarize the text data which is available in large amounts to smaller sizes.
Text Summarization
Text summarization is an NLP technique that extracts text from a large amount of data. It helps in creating a shorter version of the large text available.
It is important because :
- Reduces reading time
- Helps in better research work
- Increases the amount of information that can fit in an area