Summarization Task
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
A Summarization Task is a linguistic creation task that requires the creation of a summary item for one or more information resources.
- Context:
- input: Information Bearing Items.
- ouptut: a Summary Item.
- performance measure: Summarization Performance Measure.
- It can be supported by a Summarization System (which can be evaluated by summarizer evaluation).
- It can range from being a Human Summarization Task to being a Automated Summarization Task.
- It can range from being an Oral Summarization Task to being a Written Summarization Task.
- It can range from being a Open-Topic Summarization Task to being a Domain-Specific Summarization Task.
- It can be instantiated in a Summarization Act.
- ...
- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Document Understanding.
References
2023
- Claude
- Summarize(input) => output
- Input can be multi-modal information - text, images, datasets, code, etc.
- Output is a synthesized text summary
- Length of output < length of original textual input (if input contains text)
- Output highlights the most relevant "key points" from input
- Output provides a high-level overview of the core "essence" or "gist" of input
- Output conveys the central ideas, concepts, findings, conclusions, or topics contained in the input
- Output serves as a "briefing" for consumers to quickly familiarize themselves with the input
- Output identifies important details like: main entities, definitions, facts, conclusions, relationships, methodology, or takeaways from input
- Output has cohesive, logical flow with clear, concise language constructs
- Summarize(input) => output
2023
- Template:Lb The act of summarising
- Jim is very adept at summarisation.
- Template:Lb The process of summarising
- After summarisation, these documents seem much simpler.
- Template:Lb A summary; the result of summarising
- Jim's summarisation of the incident was very useful.