as in summary
a short statement of the main points
what you wrote goes way beyond a summarization of the speech
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Recent Examples of summarization
These Large Language Models have become essential, trained to predict the next best word in a sentence, enabling smooth text generation and summarization.
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Lutz Finger, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
The document contains hidden instructions that manipulate the summarization process.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 11 Feb. 2025
This could be anything from entity extraction, question answering, or text summarization to more complex tasks like code generation or creative writing.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
From summarization and translation to conversions and PDF chats, everything is automated to boost processing speed, accuracy, and efficiency.
—New Atlas, 14 Mar. 2025
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Trump’s other orders would also ease the regulatory process on approving new reactors and strengthening fuel supply chains, according to a draft summary obtained by Reuters.—
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Trump will invoke the Defense Production Act to declare a national emergency due to U.S. dependence on Russia and China for enriched uranium, nuclear fuel processing and inputs for advance reactors, according to a draft summary viewed by Reuters.—
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“Summarization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/summarization. Accessed 31 May. 2025.
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