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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. A simple kinda-solution by wickidpisa · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I know this isn't exactly what you are looking for, but I remember SAT prep books that teach you to read the first line of every paragraph to get a quick summary. Granted it works better for the SATs than it does IRL, but it often works pretty well and it's better than nothing. You could whip up a simple perl script to extract the first line of each paragraph in no time.