also, it seems to just be reiterating the Title of an article, can it delve into an article to summarize the content of the article despite what the author has titled it?
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Re: Show HN: gi.st – the gist of the web
#22also, it seems to just be reiterating the Title of an article, can it delve into an article to summarize the content of the article despite what the author has titled it?
@telephoto...
goto one of the following sites: www.bbc.com/news, washingtonpost.com, huffintonpost.com, reuters.com, theglobeandmail.com
On those sites, find any text article that's medium+ size in length, and submit the article (not the home page of the news site) to gist.
You should see that it's not just reiterating the title.
On many sites it's quite buggy, and what you're seeing is likely the result of gist either a.) attempting to gist something when it shouldn't (like say bbc news home page), or b.) attempting to gist when the scrape/parse failed and there was too few or poorly parsed sentences.
We do extract the html title and stick it in at the top of the page as a reference, but that title, like each gist, is editable by the community, and serves only to act as a jumping off point.
Re: Show HN: gi.st – the gist of the web
#23A gist 'filter' or something would be easier, just on all the time, instead of cut and paste the url. easy if it were a pop up that kicks in automatically everytime you go to a new web site or hover over a link - could fade out after 5 seconds if not hovered over ?
Agreed granolagirl. Just a masking of the site should Gist be turned on, with a quick link or click away feature to the source. First tests are pretty damn impressive though. Gist'd (is that even the right verb?) a couple of wiki pages and found the summary quite useful, and surprisingly, grammatically correct. Will stay tuned for sure.
:) it's grammatically correct because @gist uses an extraction based strategy. (ie, an existing representative sentence). If you want an abstract summary (ie, a new representative sentence), best to ask a human for now.
Re: Show HN: gi.st – the gist of the web
#24good start! :)
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#25Hey, seems neat, as a student it makes me wonder if it could help me as a search tool ... if it summarizes an article for me and 'the gist' is exactly what I need for a paper, can gist help me find other articles with similar 'gists' so I can use these in my paper?
Re: Show HN: gi.st – the gist of the web
#26Hey, seems neat, as a student it makes me wonder if it could help me as a search tool ... if it summarizes an article for me and 'the gist' is exactly what I need for a paper, can gist help me find other articles with similar 'gists' so I can use these in my paper?
The real purpose of gist is to help you decide what not to read. It's a better form of skimming.
Re: Show HN: gi.st – the gist of the web
#27This is awesome! No more TL;DR. The plugin or extension idea is also great and would be much easier to use and avoid the copy paste of urls. Congrats!!!
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#28Great work. Very cool. A progress indicator when the content is being parsed would be nice.