Extractive Text Summarization Using Sentence Ranking

Automatic Text summarization is the technique to identify the most useful and necessary information in a text. It has two approaches 1) Abstractive text summarization and 2) Extractive text summarization. An extractive text summarization means an important information or sentence are extracted from the given text file or original document. In this paper, a novel statistical method to perform an extractive text summarization on single document is demonstrated. The method extraction of sentences, which gives the idea of the input text in a short form, is presented. Sentences are ranked by assigning weights and they are ranked based on their weights. Highly ranked sentences are extracted from the input document so it extracts important sentences which directs to a high-quality summary of the input document and store summary as audio.