lexRankr | Extractive Text Summariztion with lexRankr | Natural Language Processing library

lexRankr is a R library typically used in Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing applications. lexRankr has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. However lexRankr has a Non-SPDX License. You can download it from GitHub.

lexRankr is an R implementation of the LexRank algorithm discussed by Güneş Erkan & Dragomir R. Radev in LexRank: Graph-based Lexical Centrality as Salience in Text Summarization. LexRank is designed to summarize a cluster of documents by proposing which sentences subsume the most information in that particular set of documents. The algorithm may not perform well on a set of unclustered/unrelated set of documents. As the white paper's title suggests, the sentences are ranked based on their centrality in a graph. The graph is built upon the pairwise similarities of the sentences (where similarity is measured with a modified idf cosine similarity function). The paper describes multiple ways to calculate centrality and these options are available in the R package. The sentences can be ranked according to their degree of centrality or by using the Page Rank algorithm (both of these methods require setting a minimum similarity threshold for a sentence pair to be included in the graph). A third variation is Continuous LexRank which does not require a minimum similarity threshold, but rather uses a weighted graph of sentences as the input to Page Rank.