Summarization
Technique in Python
Programming Language
Summarization techniques are used to condense large amounts of data
into shorter, more digestible forms. In this presentation, we'll explore
some key concepts and applications of summarization using Python.
by shreya chakravarthy
Why Summarization Techniques Matter
Save Time & Effort Gain Insights Make Data
Accessible
Summarization can help you Summarization can uncover
quickly identify important patterns and trends in data Summarization can make
information and avoid that may not be apparent complex information easier
reading lengthy documents. through manual analysis. to understand and
communicate across
different audiences.
Text Preprocessing for Summarization
1 Tokenization
A process of breaking a text into words,
phrases, symbols, or other meaningful
Stopword Elimination 2
elements to prepare it for analysis.
Common words like "and" and "the" are
removed because they don't add
meaningful information. 3 Lemmatization & Stemming
Reducing a word to its base/root form
to capture its essential meaning. For
example, "walking" and "walked" would
be reduced to "walk".
Tools Used in Summarization Process
Python NLTK & SpaCy Gensim & Sumy
Popular programming language Python libraries for processing Python libraries for
used for natural language textual data, including implementing summarization
processing and machine tokenization, stopword removal, algorithms based on TextRank
learning tasks. and part-of-speech tagging. and other techniques.
Frequency-Based Summarization
Algorithms
1 Word Frequency
Select sentences with the highest
frequency of important words.
Sentence Length 2
Select sentences with the most words
or characters, as longer sentences tend
to contain more important 3 Clustering
information.
Group sentences with similar meaning
and choose one representative
sentence from each cluster.
TextRank Algorithm for Summarization
1 Graph-Based 2 Uses PageRank 3 Combines Word
Algorithm Algorithm Embeddings &
Graph Theory
Ranks sentences based Adapts the web page
on their similarity and ranking algorithm to rank Represents the text as a
important connections. sentences instead of graph and uses word
pages. embeddings to measure
similarity between
sentences.
Evaluation Techniques for
Summarization
ROUGE BLEU
Measures the overlap between the machine- Measures the quality of machine-generated
generated and human-written summaries in summaries in terms of lexical and n-gram
terms of precision, recall, and F1-score. overlap with the reference summaries.
Summarization Applications in
Industry
News Aggregation Legal Documents Finance
Summarizing news articles to Summarizing legal documents to Summarizing market data to
provide concise and up-to-date aid lawyers and judges in provide insights and predictions
information to readers. decision-making. to investors.
Conclusion and Future Directions
Key Takeaways Future Developments
Summarization techniques in Python can We can expect to see continued progress in
help you quickly identify important machine learning and natural language
information and gain insights over large processing for enhancing the quality and
datasets. efficiency of summarization techniques.
