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A summarizer is a tool or algorithm designed to condense a larger piece of text into a shorter version while retaining the most important information. This process is often referred to as text summarization. Summarizers can be broadly categorized into two main types: extractive and abstractive.

Extractive summarizers work by identifying and selecting key sentences or phrases from the original text and then concatenating them to form a summary. They do not generate new words or rephrase the content. This approach is generally simpler to implement and guarantees that the summary is factually accurate based on the source material.

Abstractive summarizers, on the other hand, aim to understand the meaning of the original text and then generate a summary in their own words. This is a more complex process, often involving natural language generation techniques. Abstractive summaries can be more fluent and concise, but they also carry a higher risk of introducing inaccuracies or misinterpretations if the underlying model is not robust.

Summarizers are employed in a wide range of applications, including news aggregation, document analysis, research paper abstract generation, and providing concise overviews of lengthy articles or web pages. The effectiveness of a summarizer is often evaluated based on its ability to produce summaries that are coherent, relevant, and capture the essential meaning of the source document. Various metrics exist to assess the quality of summaries, considering factors like ROUGE scores and human evaluations.