summarization
/,sʌmərai'zeiʃn/
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Definition
- Noun:
- The act of preparing a summary: The process of creating a concise statement of the main points of a longer text, speech, or event.
- An instance of summarizing: A specific, individual result or example of this process; the summary itself.
Usage
- Summarization is an uncountable noun when referring to the general process or activity.
- The software is designed for automatic text summarization.
- It can be a countable noun when referring to a specific instance or product.
- His summarization of the report was accurate and helpful.
Examples
- The professor emphasized the importance of good summarization for academic writing.
- Please provide a brief summarization of the key findings from the meeting.
- The tool performs summarization by identifying the most salient sentences in a document.
Advanced Usage
- "Abstractive summarization": A type of summarization that generates new phrases and sentences to capture the core meaning, rather than just extracting key sentences.
- Advanced AI models are capable of abstractive summarization.
- "Extractive summarization": A type of summarization that creates a summary by identifying and pulling out key sentences or phrases from the original text.
- Most early summarization tools relied on extractive methods.
Variants and Related Words
- Summarize (verb): To make a summary of something.
- Can you summarize the article in three sentences?
- Summary (noun): A brief statement or account of the main points of something.
- She wrote a one-page summary of the novel.
- Summarizer (noun): A person or tool that creates summaries.
- This online summarizer can condense long articles quickly.
Synonyms
- Condensation: The act of making something more concise.
- Abridgment: A shortened version of a written work.
- Synopsis: A brief summary or general survey of something.
Related Phrases
- "To give a summarization of": To provide a summary for something.
- The manager began the meeting by giving a summarization of last quarter's results.
Noun
- the act of preparing a summary (or an instance thereof); stating briefly and succinctly