Text-Source Summary Item

A Text-Source Summary Item is a summary item whose source is one or more text documents.

• Context:
  • It can (typically) be the output of a Text Summarization Task.
  • It can be composed of Text Summary Sentences.
  • It can be evaluated by a Text Summary Measure (which produces a text summary score).
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• Example(s):
  • any Document Abstract, such as a Research Paper Abstract.
  • a News Story Summary.
  • a Product Review Summary.
  • a Synopsis.
  • a Legal Document(s)-Related Summary, such as a contract revision summary.
  • a Reference Summary.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • an Essay.
  • a Paraphrase.
• See: Writing Task, Lossy Compression.

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References

2023

• (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summary Retrieved:2023-9-16.
  • Summary may refer to:
    • Abstract (summary), shortening a passage or a write-up without changing its meaning but by using different words and sentences
    • Epitome, a summary or miniature form
    • Abridgement, the act of reducing a written work into a shorter form
    • Summary or executive summary of a document, a short document or section that summarizes a longer document such as a report or proposal or a group of related reports
    • Introduction (writing).
    • Summary (law), which has several meanings in law
    • Automatic summarization, the use of a computer program to produce an abstract or abridgement

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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