txikayak / text_summarization

An extractive text summarization for PubMed article abstracts. Based on Ng Wai Foong's post at https://medium.com/better-programming/extractive-text-summarization-using-spacy-in-python-88ab96d1fd97 with modifications: 1) Tracking case sensitive terms 2) Replacing "We" to "The authors" etc. 3) Give additional weights to these sentences with word "Conclusion" 4) Additional text cleaning

text_summarization

Aim: An extractive text summarization for PubMed article abstracts

Citation: The core of this extractive text summarization is based on Ng Wai Foong's post: Extractive Text Summarization Using spaCy in Python https://medium.com/better-programming/extractive-text-summarization-using-spacy-in-python-88ab96d1fd97

Modifications from my side:

1. Tracking case sensitive terms and replace them in the summary
2. Replacing "We" to "The authors" and "Our" to "The authors'"
3. Normalized "Conclusion:" etc into "In conclusion" and give additional weights to these sentences
4. Additional text cleaning