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Open Source Automated Text Summarization?

Posted by michael on from the boy-meets-girl-boy-loses-girl-boy-gets-girl dept.

TrebleJunkie writes "I've spent some time recenting looking for open source projects dealing with Automated Text Summarization -- automatically generating detailed summaries from longer documents -- to no avail. I can find a lot of research papers and several commercial projects, but no open source code or projects? Does anyone out there know of any?"

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  1. Microsoft Summarize by cabalamat2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know it's not open source, but have you tried the Summarize feature in Microsoft Word? I fed it the entire contents of the GNU website and it came back with:

    GNU is rubbish. Don't use the viral GPL! Bill is your friend. You love Bill. Microsoft software is the best.
  2. I'll GPL this: by Bazman · · Score: 4, Funny
    perl -ne 'split;foreach(@_){print $_." " if (rand()>.9)}'

    Try it on man pages:

    man awk | perl -ne 'split;foreach(@_){print $_." " if (rand()>.9)}'

    and it still makes sense! :)