A summarized document helps in understanding the gist of large text documents quickly and also saves a lot of time by avoiding reading of each individual document in the large text collection.
It has a number of real life applications.
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Analyzing web search results for assisting users in further browsing.
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Generating summaries for news articles.
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Generating summaries for legal case reports, etc.
From a user’s perspective, reading newspapers with lots of news content in them can be a tedious and boring task. By summarizing large paragraphs of content into fewer lines without losing the core essence of the content and important detail makes reading less painful.