  Query-based text summarization is an important real world problem that
requires to condense the prolix text data into a summary under the guidance of
the query information provided by users. The topic has been studied for a long
time and there are many existing interesting research related to query-based
text summarization. Yet much of the work is not systematically surveyed. This
survey aims at summarizing some interesting work in query-based text
summarization methods as well as related generic text summarization methods.
Not all taxonomies in this paper exist the related work to the best of our
knowledge and some analysis will be presented.
