Text Summarization in the Biomedical Domain
It provides an overview for researchers in biomedical NLP, but is incremental as it synthesizes existing work.
This chapter reviews recent advances in biomedical text summarization, discussing challenges, methods, and evaluation results without presenting new experimental findings.
This chapter gives an overview of recent advances in the field of biomedical text summarization. Different types of challenges are introduced, and methods are discussed concerning the type of challenge that they address. Biomedical literature summarization is explored as a leading trend in the field, and some future lines of work are pointed out. Underlying methods of recent summarization systems are briefly explained and the most significant evaluation results are mentioned. The primary purpose of this chapter is to review the most significant research efforts made in the current decade toward new methods of biomedical text summarization. As the main parts of this chapter, current trends are discussed and new challenges are introduced.