summarize
Summarization of the month’s activities is done via the journal entry.
This study provides an overview and summarization of the complete research program.
Summarisation of legal matters in any comprehensive yet comprehensible form is difficult.

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summarization | American Dictionary

summarization
noun[ U ]
us/ˌsʌm·ər·əˈzeɪ·ʃən/
the act of providing a clear statement of the important points

Examples of summarization

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For homogenous document collections, where it is reasonable to assume the prominence of a topic, multi-document summarization can be largely driven by this assumption.
In any case, work on visualizing and navigating multi-document collections to date does not typically make provisions for, or use, multi-document summarization.
The task of retrieving text spans is similar to the sentence selection task in automatic text summarization systems.
Single-document summaries obtained in this way were concatenated and used as input in our tool for multi-document summarization.
The second category of evaluation, an extrinsic evaluation, tests the summarization based on how it affects the completion of some other task.
In the overview, the editors mention other new research areas that haven't featured in this collection such as multi-lingual information extraction and hybrid multi-document summarization.
In the limit, question answering and summarization may merge as research areas.
Efficiently computed lexical chains as an intermediate representation for automatic text summarization.
Here the topic was not known to the summarization system.
Intrinsic evaluation tests the summarization system in itself.
Evaluating content selection in summarization: the pyramid method.
Ideally, the tables of contents should be evaluated extrinsically in different tasks, among which the most important being information retrieval and text summarization.
Providing appropriate coherent answers will be a major research area and will depend heavily on progress in text summarization.
The dry-run indicated that we could expect very large effect sizes for the summarization condition and participant system tests.
To address the issue in this paper, we take an intermediate approach between a fully structural model and pure data summarization.
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