query-focused

Definition

Conditioned on a specific question rather than covering everything. In query-focused summarization the output must address what the query asks and may legitimately drop material a generic summary would keep. That makes evaluation harder: one source document has many correct summaries, one per query, so scoring against a single reference summary is not a fair test.

Explainers using this term

• GraphRAG from Scratch — Where Knowledge Graphs Meet RetrievalFrom Local to Global: A Graph RAG Approach to Query-Focused Summarization