Author : Usvir Kaur and Dheerendra Singh

Summarizer is a system which helps in producing a condensed representation of its input ready for user consumption. Most important benefit of summary is to reduce size. This paper deals with importance of summarizers in our life. We describe various techniques such as graph matching, concept counting and hierarchy analysis etc. used by summarizer in producing summaries. Section III describes different summarizers. Section IV describe various evalution metrics. Section V the practical applications of summarizers.

Keywords: Topic Detection & Tracking (TDT), Centroid Based Summarization (CBS), Relative Utility (RU)

Article published in International Journal of Current  Engineering  and Technology, Vol.4,No.1 (Feb- 2014)