Summarization Task

A Summarization Task is a linguistic task that requires the creation of a summary for one or more information resources.

• AKA: Summarize, Summarizing
• Context:
  • It can be solved by a Summarization System (that implements a Summarization algorithm).
  • It can range from being a Human Summarization Task to being a Machine Summarization Task.
  • It can range from being an Oral Summarization Task to being a Written Summarization Task.
  • It can be instantiated in a Summarization Act.
• Example(s):
  • a Text Summarization Task.
  • an Ontology Summarization Task.
  • a Document Summarization Task.
  • a Summary-based Question-Answering Task.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • an Linguistic Translation Task.
  • a Paraphrasing Task.
• See: Document Understanding.

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