Existing abstractive summarizers often rely on an extractive pre-processing component to produce the abstract of the text (Berg-Kirkpatrick et al., 2011;Knight and Marcu, 2000).
in this paper we focus on extractive summarization methods, also given the fact that lyrics i) strongly use figurative language which makes abstractive summarization even more challenging; and ii) the choice of the words by the composer may also have an importance for capturing the style of the song.