Automatic text summarization: A comprehensive survey

Wafaa S. El-Kassas, Cherif R. Salama, Ahmed A. Rafea, Hoda K. Mohamed

Abstract: Highlights•Classifications and applications of text summarization systems are demonstrated.•Automatic text summarization approaches and their methods are illustrated.•Techniques (building blocks) to implement text summarization systems are exhibited.•Standard datasets and text summarization evaluation methods are explored.•Future research directions for automatic text summarization are presented.