Summarization

//ˌsʌməɹaɪˈzeɪʃən// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of summarizing. countable

    "Jim is very adept at summarization."

  2. 2
    the act of preparing a summary (or an instance thereof); stating briefly and succinctly wordnet
  3. 3
    The process of summarizing. uncountable

    "After summarization, these documents seem much simpler."

  4. 4
    A summary; the result of summarizing. countable

    "Jim's summarization of the incident was very useful."

Synonyms

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recapsummarisation

Example

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"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.

Related phrases

automatic summarization

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