Centroid Based Clustering Approach for Extractive Text Summarization

Abstract

Abstract: Extractive text summarization is the process of identifying the most important information from a large text and presenting it in a condensed form. One popular approach to this problem is the use of centroid-based clustering algorithms, which group together similar sentences based on their content and then select representative sentences from each cluster to form a summary. In this research, we present a centroid-based clustering algorithm for email summarization that combines the use of word embeddings with a clustering algorithm. We compare our algorithm to existing summarization techniques. Our results show that our approach stands close to existing methods in terms of summary quality, while also being computationally efficient. Overall, our work demonstrates the potential of centroid-based clustering algorithms for extractive text summarization and suggests avenues for further research in this area.