Now a days, enormous number of news articles are reported and disseminated on the web. Extracting important information from the news articles to reduce the reading time is the essential issue. Gist generation is an important, difficult and interesting Natural Language Processing (NLP) problem as it requires to mine the essential content words from an article and also to generate a gist that expresses the summary of an article. In ideal case, summary of an article need to generate directly from the understanding of an article. But, developing such type of NLP systems are not possible. This book introduces the importance of the Short Summary Generation. It presents the different preprocessing techniques for improving the performance of the methods. It discusses the various approaches for Content Word Selection from the article and compares the performance of the methods with various measures such as precision, recall and F-measures. The empirical evaluations are carried out for topic sentence identification. The Hybrid approach is presented for Short Summary generation using topic sentences.

Vijaya Pal Reddy Panuganti is working as Professor inthe Dept. of Computer Science, Matrusri EngineeringCollege Hyderabad India. He received his doctoratedegree in Computer Science from JNTU, Hyderabad.He published Two patents and more than 40 researcharticles in reputed journals. He executed fundingprojects & many expert talks delivered.