Ask HN: How far are we with abstractive text summarization?

perhaps this 7 day old paper will help: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.02268v2 (edit: i had a closer look and it is focused maily on extractive summarization, maybe it has some good references anyway)

I found a lot of papers searching for "text summarization survey" on google scholar, even when restricting to >2016 papers. e.g. "A survey on abstractive text summarization" http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7530193/?reload...

Sequence-to-sequence attention models: https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/textsum https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.00685