Summarizing Documents with T5-Large

Now let’s summarize documents.

In this lesson, we will create a summarizing function that you can call with any text you wish to summarize. We will summarize legal and financial examples. Finally, we will define the limits of the approach.

Creating a summarization function

First, let’s create a summarizing function named summarize. That way, we will just send the texts we want to summarize to our function. The function takes two parameters. The first parameter is preprocess_text, the text to summarize. The second parameter is ml, the maximum length of the summarized text. Both parameters are variables we send to the function each time we call it: