While the availability of electronic documents increases exponentially with advancing technology, the time spent to process this wealth of resourceful information decreases. Content analysis and information extraction must be aided by summarization methods to quickly parcel pieces of interest and allow for succinct user familiarization in a simple, efficient manner. Trends and Applications of Text Summarization Techniques is a pivotal reference source that explores the latest approaches of document summarization including update, multi-lingual, and domain-oriented summarization tasks and examines their current real-world applications in multiple fields. Featuring coverage on a wide range of topics such as parallel construction, social network integration, and evaluation metrics, this book is ideally designed for information technology practitioners, computer scientists, bioinformatics analysts, business managers, healthcare professionals, academicians, researchers, and students.