Definitions

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  • noun countable The act of summarising
  • noun uncountable The process of summarising
  • noun countable A summary; the result of summarising

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  • noun the act of preparing a summary (or an instance thereof); stating briefly and succinctly

Etymologies

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summarise +‎ -ation

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Examples

  • Bravo for an excellent summarisation, one that I agree.

    Dan Treul: The $109 Million Dollar Question: Is Clinton Really A Populist? 2008

  • Having a summarisation capability only by itself, might look a little dangerous since there might be open source project/s emerging that do exactly the same thing.

    Pluribo Is CliffsNotes For Amazon Reviews Jason Kincaid 2005

  • The author's summarisation is obviously full of Men's-State prejudices.

    The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul 1923

  • This recalls another famous summarisation, that given by Jesus later on in the Gospel.

    Judaism Israel Abrahams 1891

  • Model subphases: Ongoing Work • summarisation: annotation of own modi fi cations • exploration: fi nding of others 'modi fi cations • Con fl icts can be resolved using, e.g.,

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  • So I can sing, act and write but the only problem is I am 22, I have special needs - my sense of direction isn't great, find summarisation and estimation and spatial awareness difficult and sometimes I find it hard to understand certain words or questions on a paper and sometimes find it difficult to express my answer on the page so that it will make sense but that has improved alot since.

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  • Tonight was men against boys, you'll read that a lot today … when I was walking to the tube, weaving in and out of fans, that was the overriding summarisation by most.

    Le Grove 2009

  • Tonight was men against boys, you'll read that a lot today … when I was walking to the tube, weaving in and out of fans, that was the overriding summarisation by most.

    Le Grove 2009

  • These codes are available on the internet already (not necessary for text summarisation application) and it won’t be too long before someone adopts them into a free summariser, since the hard part is already been done (the development of those algorithms) and all it needs is a UI to be developed and some text processing codes and that’s it.

    Pluribo Is CliffsNotes For Amazon Reviews Jason Kincaid 2005

  • I haven’t done development in this area, but I am quite familiar with the algorithms used in text summarisation, since I am already using HMM, SVD, NNMF and so on for development in certain projects.

    Pluribo Is CliffsNotes For Amazon Reviews Jason Kincaid 2005

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