You can use any kind of source text or texts that takes your fancy.
This paper reports the effects of the properties of source texts on summarization.
Macro-organization, frequency of unfamiliar words, topic familiarity, length of source texts were among the most influential factors shaping text summarizability in the view of the participants.
Before considering the Appraisal framework, it is important to consider the larger context of source use in academic texts, which has been extensively researched according to genre (Cao & Hu, 2014), discipline (Hyland, 2005), and writer (novice vs. expert, native vs. non-native speakers) (Lee, 2010; Petrić, 2012; Swales, 2014).
The Chinese readers are within the same context of culture as the source text; whereas the English readers are within a different context of culture.
In addition, attention mechanisms are used by the service to build context from each word of the source text provided in order to decide which words are appropriate for generating the next target word.
"We believe that the SAT Essay provides a strong complement to the multiple-choice section by asking students to demonstrate reading, analysis, writing, and critical thinking skills in the context of analyzing a provided source text," the College Board said in a statement.
The comparison of the original source text of the QSF and the retranslated text revealed no major discrepancies.
Implications of these findings are discussed in relation to source text selection when designing summarization tasks.
It consists of four pages—Task Instruction, Source text 1, Source Text 2 and Writing Sheet.
