Text Summary

A text summary is a text document that summarizes the discourse of one or more text documents and that is a significantly shorter document.

• Context:
  • It can be produced by a Text Summarization Task.
• Example(s):
  • any Document Abstract, such as a Research Paper Abstract.
  • a News Story Summary.
  • a Product Review Summary.
  • a Synopsis.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • an Essay.
  • a Paraphrase.
• See: Writing Task, Lossy Compression.

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References

2002

• (Radev et al., 2002) ⇒ Dragomir Radev, Eduard Hovy, and Kathleen R. McKeown. (2002). “Introduction to the Special Issue on Summarization.” In: Computational Linguistics, 28(4). doi:10.1162/089120102762671927
  • QUOTE: A summary can be loosely defined as a text that is produced from one or more texts, that conveys important information in the original text(s), and that is no longer than half of the original text(s) and usually significantly less than that.

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