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Historical Approaches

First text summarization algorithm by Luhn (1958):
 
  1. Words are input from the text;
  2. common/non-substantive words are deleted through table look-up;
  3. content words are stored, along with their position in the text, as well as any punctuation that is located immediately to the left and/or right of the word;
  4. content words are sorted alphabetically