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'''Automatic Summarization''' is the creation of a [[short]]enedshortened version of a [[text]] by a [[computer program]]. The product of this procedure still contains the most important points of the original text.

Access to [[coherent]] and correctly-developed text summaries can be of great use, especially in our time of [[information overload]], in which the amount of information electronically available to us, grows every day. A good example of the use of summarization technology could be [[search engine]]s such as [[Google]].

[[Technology|Technologies]] that can make a [[coherent]] summary, of any kind of text, need to take into account several [[variable]]s such as length, writing-style and [[syntax]] to make a useful summary.

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Apart from Fully Automated Summarizers (FAS), there are systems that aid users with the task of summarization (MAHS = Machine Aided Human Summarization), for example by highlighting candidate passages to be included in the summary, and there are systems that depend on post-processing by a human (HAMS = Human Aided Machine Summarization).

== Further Reading ==

Endres-Niggemeyer, Brigitte (1998): Summarizing Information (ISBN 3540637354)

Mani, Inderjeet (2001): Automatic Summarization (ISBN 1588110605)