Understanding text summarization

With the burden of a busy daily schedule, we all seek to reduce the time spent reading text data. Take a moment to contemplate the number of emails, reports, news articles, tweets, blog posts, and so on you confront in 24 hours. The human brain employs different strategies to compensate for this challenge, such as skipping sentences in the text or searching for specific keywords before focusing on the content. Many studies have examined this phenomenon, and one of the most cited ones refers to how people in the west read the content of a web page. Using eye-tracking techniques, researchers from the Nielsen Norman Group (https://www.nngroup.com/articles/f-shaped-pattern-reading-web-content-discovered/) showed that humans follow a reading pattern resembling the letter F, as illustrated in Figure 7.1:

Figure 7.1 – F-shaped reading pattern of a web page

The reading usually starts at the upper part of the content area (point...