Computers Paraphrase English

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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Interesting use of Technology

[rkz]

Google news already uses a similar technique to decide what to put in the summary beneath the headline, it does not paraphrase but it does actually extract a summary.

Also if you have Microsoft Word lying about there is a feature called Auto-summary which is suprisingly good, amost as effective as going through a document yourself looking for the main points.