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'''Summarization''' is the automated creation of a summary of any kind of [[text]].

Although this development represents a very useful option for the user, the creation and development of a [[technology]] that can make a [[coherent]] summary, of any kind of text, taking into acountaccount varying content such as length, writing-style, [[syntax]], etc. is very difficult.

There are different types of summaries depending what the summarization machine focusfocuses on to make the summary of the text, for example [[sentence]] selection summaries, generic summaries or query relevant summaries. In the words of Goldstein ''"Human summarization of documents, sometimes called [[abstraction]], produces a fixed-length generic summary that reflects the key points which the abstractor deems important."'' [http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/goldstein99summarizing.html]

Nowadays, summarization systems are able to create both query relevant text summaries or generic machine-generated summaries depending on what the user needs.