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Preferred term

Summarization  

Type

  • Named individual

  • Operation

Definition

  • 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.

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • ATS
  • Automatic Summarization
  • Automatic Text Summarization
  • Text Summarization
  • TS

Description

  • The process/task 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)

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URI

http://w3id.org/meta-share/omtd-share/Summarization

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