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# Summarize

Allows you to generate a conceptual summary for documents, document sections, or text. You can generate various summary types.

## Example

    http://12.3.4.56:9000/action=Summarize&ID=30

This action uses port `9000` to generate a concept summary from the content of the document with the ID `30` in IDOL Server, which is located on a machine with the IP address `12.3.4.56`.

## Parameters

Parameter | Description | Required
--- | --- | ---
Characters | The number of characters that a summary can contain. |
DetectLanguageType | Whether to detect the language type of the text. |
ID | The document IDs of documents to summarize. | See Comments
LanguageType | The language type of the query text. |
OutputEncoding | The encoding to convert the results to. |
Reference | The references of documents to summarize. | See Comments
ReferenceField | Restricts the Reference parameter to the specified reference field. |
SecurityInfo | Security details for the user sending the action. |
Sentences | The number of sentences that the summary can contain. |
StateID | The state token of the group of documents to summarize. |
Summary | The type of summary to generate. | Yes
Synchronous | Whether to run the action synchronously or asynchronously. |
Text | The text to summarize. | See Comments

The following optional parameters are available when you set Summary to `Concepts`.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
QuerySummaryAdvanced | Whether to enable the advanced algorithm for query summaries, for dynamic summaries and automatic query guidance.
QuerySummaryLength | The maximum number of best terms to use in a query summary.
QuerySummaryMaxDocLength | The maximum number of characters in each document to use to generate a query summary.
QuerySummaryNumbers | Whether to allow numeric and alphanumeric values in query summaries.
QuerySummaryPlus | Whether to enable the `QuerySummaryPlus` algorithm for query summaries.
QuerySummaryStopPhraseMode | Disable the configured QuerySummaryStopPhraseMode.
QuerySummaryTerms | The number of terms to use to generate a query summary.
QuerySummaryWhiteListMode | Disable the configured QuerySummaryWhiteListMode.

This action accepts the following standard ACI action parameters.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
ActionID | A string to use to identify an ACI action.
EncryptResponse | Encrypt the output.
FileName | The file to write output to.
ForceTemplateRefresh | Forces the server to load the template from disk.
Output | Writes output to a file.
ResponseFormat | The format of the action output.
Template | The template to use for the action output.
TemplateParamCSVs | A list of variables to use for the specified template.

## Comments

You must set one of the following parameters or parameter combinations:

- ID
- Reference
- ID and Reference
- StateID
- Text

When you set Summary to `Concepts`, you must set the Text parameter.

Note: If you distribute the `Summarize` action by using a Distributed Action Handler, you cannot use any parameters that specify the IDs of documents. Use parameters that identify documents by their reference instead.

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