Text Summarization
Text summarization is the task of producing a shorter text that conveys the key information of one or more longer texts.
Lecture Slides
Lab
In this lab, you will compare the automatic summarization of news articles using (a) an extractive algorithm with sentence embeddings, and (b) an instruction-fined large language model.
Reading Material
- Allahyari et al. (2017) for a survey on text summarization techniques
- Chapter 10 of Jurafsky & Martin (2024) on large language models (LLMs), with summarization as an example application