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Computers Paraphrase English

Posted by michael on from the me-talk-pretty-one-day dept.

AhaIndia submits a link to a story discussing computerized paraphrasing of English news articles. This technology, destined to eventually replace most reporters with very small shell scripts, is thankfully still in its infancy.

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  1. Like Word's AutoSummarize by nstrom · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This reminds me of Microsoft's AutoSummarize feature, which has been a feature since for quite some time (I seem to remember using it in high school with Word 6)... That feature basically tried to keep the first, last, and topic sentence of each paragraph, more or less, and you could give it a percentage value to shrink the text down to. (ie. 50% to excerpt half the original text)

  2. beta by fuck_this_shit · · Score: 0, Redundant

    it's already being betatested on slashdot, one of the main bugs is that the scripts post the same news multiple times, just paraphrased slightly differently. Did you really believe humans are able to make such an amount of doubleposts? please. be realistic...