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An App to Boil Down Online User Reviews

Posted by timothy on from the please-phrase-your-review-as-free-verse dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Is this a glimpse at the future of the Semantic Web? A new startup named Pluribo has developed a technology that can auto-summarize user reviews on the internet. It is a Firefox extension that can take a webpage filled with reviews and condense it down into a couple of sentences. Currently, it just works with Amazon electronics, but the potential seems incredible. Ars Technica took an in-depth look."

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  1. One problem by Rob+Kaper · · Score: 4, Informative

    The application seems to assume that the best summary is the one with the most correlation to the other posts, in other words: the most common viewpoint. While that may work fine for user reviews, in most cases the viewpoint of the masses is usually not the best.

  2. Re:How about a comment synopsis generator by xant · · Score: 4, Informative

    Man, you guys really don't know about Alterslash yet?

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