Automatic arabic text summarization (AATS): A survey

Abstract

Due to the obvious significant expansion in the number of online Arabic textual information, Arabic Text Summarization has become a focus of intense research. Manual text summarization necessitates a large investment of time, effort, and money. Hence, Automatic Arabic Text Summarization (AATS) is currently necessary to create accurate and relevant summaries from the huge amount of accessible content. The developed techniques and methodologies for AATS are still in their immaturity because of the intrinsic complexity of the structure and morphology of the Arabic language. AATS methods could be categorized as extractive, abstractive, hybrid extractive to abstractive. The extractive method selects and combines the most important sentences from the input document(s) to produce the summary. While the abstractive method needs deep understanding of the input document(s) for creating the summary with sentences that differ from the original ones. The extractive to abstractive method is a hybrid strategy for creating an informative and cohesive summary using the extractive summary as a first step. This paper provides a detailed explanation of the fundamental issues related to Arabic text summarization. It describes and analyzes the various methods and systems currently in use, traces their history and monitors their performance. The challenges and trends are explored.