Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems : Springer : 9783540408031 : 3540408037 : 27 Aug 2003 : 2.1 Text Summarization ?Text summarization is the process of distilling the most important information from a source (or sources) to produce an abridged version for a particular user (or users) and task (or tasks)? [3]. Basic and classical articles in text summarization appear in ?Advances in automatic text summarization? [3]. A literature survey on information extraction and text summarization is given by Zechner [7]. In general, the process of automatic text summarization is divided into three stages: (1) analysis of the given text, (2) summarization of the text, (3) presentation of the summary in a suitable output form. Titles, abstracts and keywords are the most common summaries in Academic papers. Usually, the title, the abstract and the keywords are the first, second, and third parts of an Academic paper, respectively. The title usually describes the main issue