Skip to main content

Dictionary of Terms for Language Resources and Language Technology Infrastructures

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

language resources and technology infrastructure concept > operation > natural language generation > summarization

Preferred term

summarization  

Definition

  • the task/process of reducing one or more textual documents with a computer program in order to create a summary that retains the most important points of the original document(s)

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • ATS
  • automatic summarization
  • automatic text summarization
  • text summarization
  • TS

Note

  • Text summarization is the process of distilling the most important information from a source (or sources) to produce an abridged version for a particular user (or users) and task (or tasks). Source: Mani, I. and Maybury, M. T., editors (1999), Advances in Automatic Text Summarization. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In other languages

  • συνόψιση

    Greek

  • αυτόματη συνόψιση
  • αυτόματη συνόψιση κειμένου
  • συνόψιση κειμένου

URI

http://w3id.org/clarin_el_dictionary/summarization

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD