AI Glossary
Summarisation
What is Summarisation?
One of the most widely used AI capabilities in professional contexts — condensing long documents, meeting transcripts, research papers, or email threads into concise summaries. LLMs perform extractive summarization (selecting key passages) and abstractive summarization (rephrasing and synthesising). Summary accuracy should always be verified for high-stakes use cases.
Example in practice
An executive who pastes a 30-page analyst report into an AI assistant and asks for a five-bullet executive summary is using AI summarization — but should verify the key claims against the source before presenting to the board.
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