Transformer-Based Summarization NLP Tools

Tools implementing abstractive text summarization using transformer architectures (encoder-decoder, seq2seq, pre-trained models like BERT/GPT/mBART). Does NOT include extractive summarization, genetic algorithms, or non-transformer abstractive approaches.

There are 93 transformer-based summarization tools tracked. 3 score above 50 (established tier). The highest-rated is kenlimmj/rouge at 66/100 with 44 stars.

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#	Tool	Score	Tier	Stars	Language
1	kenlimmj/rouge A Javascript implementation of the Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting...	66	Established	44	JavaScript
2	uoneway/KoBertSum KoBertSum은 BertSum모델을 한국어 데이터에 적용할 수 있도록 수정한 한국어 요약 모델입니다.	52	Established	84	Jupyter Notebook
3	udibr/headlines Automatically generate headlines to short articles	51	Established	524	Jupyter Notebook
4	bheinzerling/pyrouge A Python wrapper for the ROUGE summarization evaluation package	49	Emerging	249	Python
5	xiongma/transformer-pointer-generator A Abstractive Summarization Implementation with Transformer and Pointer-generator	49	Emerging	400	Python
6	pltrdy/files2rouge Calculating ROUGE score between two files (line-by-line)	48	Emerging	191	Perl
7	tagucci/pythonrouge Python wrapper for evaluating summarization quality by ROUGE package	47	Emerging	162	Perl
8	kavgan/ROUGE-2.0 ROUGE automatic summarization evaluation toolkit. Support for ROUGE-[N, L,...	45	Emerging	220	Java
9	EagleW/Writing-editing-Network Code for Paper Abstract Writing through Editing Mechanism	44	Emerging	74	Python
10	cosmoquester/2021-dialogue-summary-competition [2021 훈민정음 한국어 음성•자연어 인공지능 경진대회] 대화요약 부문 알라꿍달라꿍 팀의 대화요약 학습 및 추론 코드를 공유하기 위한 레포입니다.	44	Emerging	128	Python
11	clovaai/FocusSeq2Seq [EMNLP 2019] Mixture Content Selection for Diverse Sequence Generation...	42	Emerging	113	Python
12	santhoshkolloju/Abstractive-Summarization-With-Transfer-Learning Abstractive summarisation using Bert as encoder and Transformer Decoder	42	Emerging	412	Python
13	bhattbhavesh91/text-summarizer-using-BERT Text summarization with BERT using bert-extractive-summarizer	41	Emerging	24	Jupyter Notebook
14	cylnlp/dialogsum DialogSum: A Real-life Scenario Dialogue Summarization Dataset - Findings of ACL 2021	40	Emerging	183	Python
15	iamaaditya/neural-paraphrase-generation Neural Paraphrase Generation	40	Emerging	176	Python
16	TheOnesThatWereAbroad/PodcastSummarization Text Summarization on Spotify Podcast Transcripts for NLP class at @UNIBO	37	Emerging	17	Jupyter Notebook
17	neural-dialogue-metrics/rouge An implementation of ROUGE family metrics for automatic summarization.	35	Emerging	24	Perl
18	Mandar-Sharma/TCube TCube generates rich and fluent narratives that describes the...	32	Emerging	13	Jupyter Notebook
19	dmitry-vorobiev/nlp_headline_rus News headline (title) generation using neural nets, trained on RIA dataset...	31	Emerging	3	Jupyter Notebook
20	dsandeep0138/Abstractive-Summarization Modified existing text summarization model with pre-trained BERTSUM encoder...	31	Emerging	3	Jupyter Notebook
21	nannullna/EasyBART Extractive/Abstractive summarY BART	31	Emerging	3	Python
22	li-plus/rouge-metric A Python wrapper of the official ROUGE-1.5.5.pl script and a...	31	Emerging	21	Perl
23	Moeinh77/Transformers-for-abstractive-summarization Abstractive Text Summarization with Transformer networks implemented (from...	30	Emerging	24	Jupyter Notebook
24	Develop-Packt/Using-Text-Generators-and-Summarization-models Generate and paraphrase text using different models for use in Python....	30	Emerging	2	Jupyter Notebook
25	PlusLabNLP/AESOP Code for Aesop: Paraphrase Generation with Adaptive Syntactic Control (EMNLP 2021)	30	Emerging	26	Python
26	chaithrakc/news-summarization Generating short length description of news articles	30	Emerging	1	Jupyter Notebook
27	GermanT5/german-t5-eval German T5 Model Evaluation	30	Emerging	6	—
28	yahah100/text_summarization Text summarization with python and transformer	30	Emerging	13	Jupyter Notebook
29	Shaumik-Ashraf/BART-MIMIC-CXR Use BART word embedder to do the abstractive summarization NLP task on...	29	Experimental	7	Jupyter Notebook
30	tamasandacian/Transformers-Summarization Generate abstractive summarisation from input text using transformer models	29	Experimental	1	Python
31	Tixierae/OrangeSum The French summarization dataset introduced in "BARThez: a Skilled...	29	Experimental	23	Jupyter Notebook
32	AniketYadav17/abstractive-text-summarizer Abstractive Text Summarization is the task of generating a short and concise...	29	Experimental	1	HTML
33	derintelligence/az-summarization Abstractive summarization for Azerbaijani language	28	Experimental	10	—
34	seongminp/graph-dialogue-summary Code for "Unsupervised Abstractive Dialogue Summarization with Word Graphs...	28	Experimental	12	Python
35	ereverter/bertsum-hf BERT for extractive summarization using HuggingFace	28	Experimental	10	Python
36	LaurentVeyssier/Abstractive-Text-Summarization-model-in-Keras Abstractive Text Summarization using Transformer model	27	Experimental	6	Jupyter Notebook
37	psunlpgroup/FaMeSumm [EMNLP 2023] FaMeSumm: Investigating and Improving Faithfulness of Medical...	27	Experimental	13	Python
38	hpzhao/nlp-metrics nlp metrics	25	Experimental	11	HTML
39	vcccaat/nlp Text summarization methods introduction	25	Experimental	7	Jupyter Notebook
40	aniass/text-summarizer Text summarization based on extractive and abstractive methods by using python.	25	Experimental	7	Jupyter Notebook
41	mdzaheerjk/End-to-End-NLP-Text-Summarization-with-Hugging-Face-Transformers Develop a complete text summarization system from scratch, focusing on...	25	Experimental	7	—
42	KyloRen1/GPT-summarizer minimal working summarisation using GPT	23	Experimental	4	Python
43	SayamAlt/Abstractive-Text-Summarization-of-News-Articles Successfully developed an encoder-decoder based sequence to sequence...	22	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
44	NewPlus/Multi_View_Summarization Improving Dialogue Summarization with Speaker-aware and Topic-aware...	22	Experimental	2	Python
45	HackGSU-2022/News-Evaluate GSU Hack 10.0 Project (2nd Best winner for Meta[Facebook] ): Summarizes the...	22	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
46	MohanKrishnaGR/Infosys_Springboard_Text-Summarization GROUP 4. This repository contains the implementation of a Transformer-based...	22	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
47	ManasiTilak/ContentParaphraser Content Paraphraser using parrot and NLTK in python.	21	Experimental	1	Python
48	faisaltareque/Multilingual-Rouge-Scorer This Python package is used for calculating ROUGE scores and supports over...	21	Experimental	1	Python
49	dotrann1412/transformer-text-summarization Small text-summarization application using transformer-based model.	21	Experimental	9	Jupyter Notebook
50	RyanKor/ko-nlp-legal-docs-summary Extracting the three sentences that best represent the original text of a...	21	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
51	ambideXtrous9/Bengali-News-Summarization-BanglaT5 Bengali News Summarization - BengaliGPT & T5	20	Experimental	5	Python
52	alexvishnevskiy/Huawei-project Summarization task	20	Experimental	6	Jupyter Notebook
53	gergomiklos/abstractive-text-summarization Custom PyTorch LSTM Seq2Seq model with Attention Mechanism	20	Experimental	5	Jupyter Notebook
54	FeisalDy/abridge-novel Faithful long-form condensation of full novels for fast human reading and...	19	Experimental	—	Python
55	daimakram/Bug-Detection-Code-Summarization Performs Code Summarization, Bug Detection, Bug Removal using different...	19	Experimental	3	Jupyter Notebook
56	denocris/NLP-Workshop-MLMilan Advanced NLP Workshop: word-sense disambiguation with RoBERTa and text...	19	Experimental	27	Jupyter Notebook
57	farazkh80/SearchEngine A Searching and Summarizing Engine leveraging a custom-built search engine...	19	Experimental	3	Python
58	HarisMav7/PegasusSummarizer-AI TextSummarizer – End-to-end NLP pipeline for dialogue summarization using...	19	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
59	ngoquanghuy99/transformer-summarization An abstractive text summarization model based on Transformer Decoder (GPT-2)...	19	Experimental	17	Jupyter Notebook
60	fatimaazfar/Pegasus-Paraphraser Pegasus Paraphraser is a text paraphrasing system built using the...	19	Experimental	3	Jupyter Notebook
61	Ritee17/Headline_Generator An end-to-end Abstractive News Summarizer using a Seq2Seq LSTM architecture...	19	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
62	berecat/gpt2_smr Text summarization using GPT2 from Hugging Face.	18	Experimental	2	Python
63	kshitijzutshi/BERT-Summary-API Built and deployed Text Summarization Hugging face Model on AWS	18	Experimental	2	Python
64	nazhimkalam/gensum Adaptive generalized review summarization system using optimized transformers.	18	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
65	Khamies/T5-Fine-tune-Wikihow-XSum This is a Pytorch implementation of a summarization model that is fine-tuned...	18	Experimental	2	Python
66	ezahpizza/T5-Text-Summarization Summarization creates a shorter version of a document or an article that...	17	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
67	paultheron-X/INF582-NLP_challenge Construction of a model to determine whether summaries of some news article...	17	Experimental	1	Python
68	MichalSuchocki/T5-text-summarization Fine-tuning the T5-base model using parts of the CNN/DailyMail dataset using...	17	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
69	teja-1403/TextSummarization-Using-PEGASUS-BART A text summarization project leveraging the PEGASUS and BART models for news...	17	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
70	Real-J/Text-Summarizer-Using-NLP A Python-based text summarization tool that supports extractive (NLTK) and...	17	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
71	00200200/t5-text-summarization-cnn-dailymail Simple text summarizer using T5-small model, trained on CNN/DailyMail and...	15	Experimental	2	Python
72	HimanshuSahu04/Extractive-Text-Summarization-using-NLP An end-to-end NLP project demonstrating extractive and abstractive text...	14	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
73	Komorebirumu/awe-ms-20260317-2159-01 AI Abstract Generator: Interdisciplinary Science & Research	14	Experimental	—	HTML
74	GeekAlexis/two-stage-sum Two-stage text summarization with BERT and BART	13	Experimental	11	Python
75	Anjali001/Text_Summarisation_SNLP This research is produced as a part of coursework for Statistical Natural...	13	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
76	arnavsshah/Meeting-Summarization Leveraging extractive summarization techniques for abstractive summarization.	12	Experimental	6	Jupyter Notebook
77	hipstermartin/Abstractive-Text-Summarization Text Summarization is one of the most experimental subjects in natural...	12	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
78	loran-avci/dialog_summ Automated Text Summarization for Dialogues with Transformer Models	11	Experimental	3	Jupyter Notebook
79	jonahwinninghoff/Text-Summarization Big Bird and XNET Transformers are both transferred learnings that are in...	11	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
80	JebaMercy14/Rare-Word-Text-summarization This project 'Rare Word - Text summarization' use Language Model for the...	11	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
81	purang2/Report-Summarization Summarize Long Document with Pretrained sequence-to-sequence LM with...	11	Experimental	4	—
82	Geo-y20/Research-Paper-Title-Generation-using-bart A Notebook that demonstrates how to use the BART Transformer model to...	11	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
83	Koziev/paraphrase_reranker Paraphrase detection and reranking model	11	Experimental	—	Python
84	trinhtuanvubk/Paraphrasing-Generation-T5 Training paraphasing using huggingface T5	11	Experimental	3	Python
85	Arjun-08/Sequence-to-sequence-networks-for-multi-text-document-summarization This repository explores the use of advanced sequence-to-sequence networks...	10	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
86	Smit1400/HeadlineHunch Built a "News Headline Generator" that uses encoder-decoder along with...	10	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
87	bhadreshpsavani/t5-sentence-split An Experiment to get a better sentence split model	10	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
88	Likhith-Asapu/Multiperspective-Answer-Summariser An Automatic Answer Summariser developed using Python, PyTorch, and...	10	Experimental	2	Python
89	moon23k/Transformer_Variants Transformer Architectures Comparison in Natural Language Generation Tasks	10	Experimental	2	Python
90	prateekralhan/BERT-based-Document-Summarizer A Multi Document Summarizer Using Bidirectional Encoder Representations from...	10	Experimental	2	Python
91	zhangming-19/ROUGE-SEM Zhang M, Li C, Wan M, et al. ROUGE-SEM: Better evaluation of summarization...	10	Experimental	2	Python
92	TSS-sniper/Research-ppr-Summarizer To automatically create concise and informative summaries of research papers...	10	Experimental	2	Python
93	mashchenskaia/Text-summarization RnD project on the topic of text text summarization	10	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook

Comparisons in this category

Abstractive-Summarization-With-Transfer-Learning and Abstractive-Summarization (42 vs 31) pyrouge and pythonrouge (49 vs 47) rouge and pyrouge (66 vs 49) pyrouge and rouge (49 vs 35) pyrouge and rouge-metric (49 vs 31) rouge and ROUGE-2.0 (66 vs 45) ROUGE-2.0 and rouge (45 vs 35) rouge and pythonrouge (66 vs 47) pythonrouge and rouge (47 vs 35) pythonrouge and rouge-metric (47 vs 31)