Unleashing the Magic of Text Summarization with OpenAI

Text summarization illustrated with real-life examples

Pranay Dave
5 min readDec 18, 2023
Image generated by author using ChatGPT-plus

Have you ever wondered if a lengthy customer review, spanning over 500 words, could be distilled into a concise 50-word summary without losing its essence? Welcome to the realm of text summarization, where you will see the enchanting capabilities of Cutting Edge OpenAI large language models. In this blog, I will walk through a demonstration of this magic, utilizing OpenAI’s technology. OpenAI, the brains behind ChatGPT, is at the forefront of innovation in natural language processing.

In this blog, I will focus on Amazon customer reviews, which have information such as product IDs, customer ratings, and review texts. The goal is to transform lengthy reviews into succinct summaries, showcasing the prowess of abstractive summarization.

Amazon customer reviews (image by author)

Before diving in, it’s crucial to understand the two primary types of summarization. Extractive summarization involves identifying and extracting key phrases directly from the source text. On the other hand, abstractive summarization, the more advanced approach, generates new sentences or phrases to summarize the…

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