Extractive vs Abstractive Summaries
Picking sentences vs writing new ones.
Two Ways to Summarize
Summarization shrinks long text into a short version that keeps the key points. There are two main strategies, and knowing both helps you pick the right tool. 📝
Extractive Summaries
An extractive summary copies the most important sentences straight out of the source. Nothing is reworded, so the output is always faithful to the original.
All lessons in this course
- Extractive vs Abstractive Summaries
- Summarizing With a Seq2Seq Model
- Machine Translation in Practice
- Scoring Generation With ROUGE and BLEU