summarization

[ suhm-uh-rahy-zey-shuhn ]

noun

1. the act or process of providing a summary, a brief restatement of something that captures all its important points:

   In this position you will be responsible for the collection, analysis, interpretation, and summarization of business data.

Word History and Origins

Origin of summarization¹

summariz(e) ( def ) + -ation ( def )

Example Sentences

Existing medical text summarization tools involve human supervision to prevent the generation of unreliable summaries that could lead to serious health care risks, according to Zhang.

From Science Daily

“One of the things that’s really nice about having humans do the summarization is that you get some sort of basic level of alignment by default,” Aaron Halfaker pointed out to me.

From New York Times

Gannett will eventually incorporate that summarization technology into its publishing system.

From Reuters

DeepMind’s research confirms this trend and suggests that scaling up LLMs does offer improved performance on the most common benchmarks testing things like sentiment analysis and summarization.

From The Verge

“Hamilton’s prose style and succinct summarization of what the storm was like and its effects certainly got noticed,” Chenoweth said.

From Washington Post

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• tale
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