Summarizes

Summarizes is the third-person singular present tense form of the verb summarize. To summarize means to express the main ideas of a larger text, speech, or event in a shorter, more concise form. Summarizing distills essential points while omitting minor details, and it is used in journalism, academia, business, and everyday communication.

Grammar and usage: In American English, the standard spelling is summarizes; in British English, summarises. The base form is summarize, the present participle is summarizing, and the past tense is summarized. Example sentences include: The article summarizes the key findings, and The speaker summarized the plan for the project. The choice of tense and aspect can reflect whether a reader is learning, reporting, or relaying a past event.

In information processing, summarization can be manual or computer-assisted. Tasks include extractive summarization, which selects existing sentences, and abstractive summarization, which generates new wording. Effective summarization prioritizes clarity, coherence, and coverage of major points, while avoiding misrepresentation or bias. Automated systems are evaluated using metrics such as ROUGE to compare generated summaries against reference summaries.

See also: Related terms include summary, summarization, précis, and abstract. While all aim to convey essential content concisely, nuance and intent vary across contexts—from academic abstracts to news briefs and executive summaries.