Writing

Text Summarization Using the Chain of Density (CoD) Method

Input the full article text into ARTICLE. Generate an initial long (~80 words), nonspecific summary using verbose language and minimal informative entities. Then, repeat five times: (1) identify 1-3 relevant, concise (five words or fewer), novel, and faithful entities missing

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Prompt template

Run these steps in order.

01
Input the full article text into ARTICLE.
02
Write an initial long (~80 words) nonspecific summary using verbose language and minimal informative entities.
03
Repeat five times the following:
04
Identify 1-3 relevant, concise (five words or fewer), novel, and faithful entities missing from the previous summary.
05
Rewrite the summary to include all previous and new entities, maintaining the same word count, improving flow, and maximizing information density.
06
Ensure each summary is self-contained and retains all prior entities while balancing new entities within the length constraint.

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