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Broadly, one distinguishes two approaches: ''[[extraction]]'' and ''[[abstraction]]''.

Extraction techniques merely copy the information deemed most important by the system to the summary, while abstraction involves paraphrasing sections of the [[source document]]. In general, abstraction can condense a text more strongly than extraction, but the programs that can do this are harder to developedevelop.

==Types of summaries==