Summarization
/ˌsʌməɹaɪˈzeɪʃən/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act of summarizing. countable
"Jim is very adept at summarization."
- 2 the act of preparing a summary (or an instance thereof); stating briefly and succinctly wordnet
- 3 The process of summarizing. uncountable
"After summarization, these documents seem much simpler."
- 4 A summary; the result of summarizing. countable
"Jim's summarization of the incident was very useful."
Example
More examples"Let me add some words about sentence fusion. A human is given two sentences and asked to produce a single coherent sentence that contains only the important information from the original two. This is a highly constrained summarization task. Investigations — carried out by Hal Daume and Daniel Marcu — has shown "that even at this restricted level, there is no measurable agreement between humans regarding what information should be considered important.""
Etymology
From summarize + -ation.