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Computers Summarize the News

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the replaced-by-a-very-small-shell-script dept.

oily_ants writes "I get sick and tired of reading the same story on different web sites. That's why I like slashdot so much. Good (??) summaries of all of the stuff out there on the net. Now there is a project at Columbia University by the nlp group that attempts to generate computer summaries of all of those news articles on different web sites. The project is called Newsblaster and the summaries are excellent. You can read about the project on regular news sites like Online Journalism Review or USA Today."

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  1. copyright/legality? by ddeboer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What are the copyright or other legal issues to republishing news stories collected from web sites? The Newsblaster site clearly states where the information comes from - like every good college student is taught to cite information sources. On the other hand, on the bottom of many of the stories is the notice: "Copyright 2002 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed." Is collecting and condensing news stories "republishing" - does this violate copyright stuff?