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 78 transformer-based summarization tools tracked. 1 score above 70 (verified tier). The highest-rated is kenlimmj/rouge at 71/100 with 44 stars and 8,714 monthly downloads.

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

Comparisons in this category

pyrouge and pythonrouge (42 vs 40) rouge and pyrouge (71 vs 42) pyrouge and rouge (42 vs 28) pyrouge and rouge-metric (42 vs 34) rouge and ROUGE-2.0 (71 vs 38) ROUGE-2.0 and rouge (38 vs 28) rouge and files2rouge (71 vs 41) rouge and pythonrouge (71 vs 40) pythonrouge and rouge (40 vs 28) pythonrouge and rouge-metric (40 vs 34)