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Text Summarization aims to generate concise and compressed form of original documents. The techniques used for text summarization may be categorized as extractive summarization and abstractive summarization. We consider extractive techniques which are based on selection of important sentences within a document. A major issue in extractive summarization is how to select important sentences, i.e., what criteria should be defined for selection of sentences which are eventually part of the summary. We examine this issue using rough sets notion of reducts. A reduct is an attribute subset which essentially contains the same information as the original attribute set. In particular, we defined and examined three types of matrices based on an information table, namely, discernibility matrix, indiscernibility matrix and equal to one matrix. Each of these matrices represents a certain type of relationship between the objects of an information table. Three types of reducts are determined based on these matrices. The reducts are used to select sentences and consequently generate text summaries. Experimental results and comparisons with existing approaches advocates for the use of the proposed approach in generating text summaries.