Scalable and effective document summarization framework

A method for generating a summary of a document, the method comprising:

• receiving, through an interface, a viewing request from a communication device, the viewing request corresponding to a document including textual information;
• in response to receiving the viewing request, determining a target summary length;
• extracting the textual information from the document;
• parsing the textual information;
• identifying a plurality of sentence structures from the textual information based on the parsing;
• assigning each sentence structure, of the plurality of sentence structures, a weighted score based on the target summary length;
• generating, in accordance with a summarization policy, candidate summaries to include one or more sentence structures from the plurality of sentence structures;
• and
• determining a candidate score for each candidate summary, of the candidate summaries, as a function of one or more scores assigned to each sentence structure included in the respective candidate summary.

A method for generating a summary of a document, the method comprising:

• receiving, through an interface, a viewing request from a communication device, the viewing request corresponding to a document including textual information;
• in response to receiving the viewing request, determining a target summary length;
• extracting the textual information from the document;
• parsing the textual information;
• identifying a plurality of sentence structures from the textual information based on the parsing;
• assigning each sentence structure, of the plurality of sentence structures, a weighted score based on the target summary length;
• choosing sentence structures, of the plurality of sentence structures, to form a candidate summary in accordance with a summarization policy;
• and
• modeling a combination of scores for each sentence structure in the candidate summary as a function of one or more scores for each sentence structure.