The use of an AI system to produce a shorter version of a text that preserves its key information, including abstracts, lay summaries, executive summaries, and literature digests, whether extractive (sentence selection) or abstractive (paraphrasing).

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 21 May 2026

Examples

Worked examples

Is an instance
Using an LLM to draft a plain-language summary of a clinical paper, then human-reviewed for accuracy

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

Not an instance
A human writing a one-paragraph summary based on their own reading is not AI summarisation

Editorial commentary

Abstractive AI summarisation is prone to hallucination — including content not in the source and omitting important caveats — so any AI-generated summary of a scholarly work should be human-verified. Where the summary is published, AI use is disclosable.

References

Pasunuru et al. 2023 ‘Faithful Summarisation Survey’ TACL
Maynez et al. 2020 ‘On Faithfulness and Factuality in Abstractive Summarisation’ ACL

Also known as

Automatic summarisation · LLM summarisation

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element

xml

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      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="AI summarisation"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/ai-summarisation" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

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    "Automatic summarisation",
    "LLM summarisation"
  ],
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  },
  "dateModified": "2026-05-21T01:56:54",
  "inLanguage": "en"
}

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