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#31
I'd be curious to learn more about the use case for blockchain here.

For instance, Ocean Protocol plans to use TCRs for data quality, meaning that data providers and data consumers evaluate the quality of a dataset in a continuous way, so that certain assets can be moved up/ down the ranks in near real time.

Re: Show HN: Extract main ideas in your texts with SummarizeBot

#32
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I still don't understand what this has to do with blockchain. Funding from VCs?

True story. I met a guy who was looking for a tech co-founder and had an idea that will use blockchain. I challenged him on the reason behind the use of blockchain and he literally said "Investors like to hear buzzwords and at this time, I am looking to raise funding". His idea wasn't bad but he couldn't justify using blockchain to implement it. I pressed him further and asked if he was willing to implement the idea…

Did he get the funding though?

Re: Show HN: Extract main ideas in your texts with SummarizeBot

#33

> Hi, I am AI and Blockchain-Powered SummarizeBot! I assume the expected reaction is "Cool! They use blockchain." My reaction is moreso, "What on earth does this have to do with blockchain?" > We apply decentralized architecture to train and test our AI models. Using blockchain technology helps us not only to get more training data but also to improve the trustworthiness of our algorithms. I still don't understand wh…

Blockchain is everywhere now, it's even built in to MS-Office with this service https://www.microsoft.com/developerblog/2017/04/10/stampery-... sowhy not something like a summarizer as well.I am just waiting for the office admin people to ask me to verify my documents with this.

Re: Show HN: Extract main ideas in your texts with SummarizeBot

#35

What kind of a person writes enough that it becomes useful to summarize what they write, but is incapable of summarizing what they have written so that a summarizebot becomes useful to them?

I would fin that useful, coming from a background writing somewhat abstruse mathematics and now having to write for ordinary people. Summarizer tools seem to offer a useful productivity tool.

Re: Show HN: Extract main ideas in your texts with SummarizeBot

#36

What kind of a person writes enough that it becomes useful to summarize what they write, but is incapable of summarizing what they have written so that a summarizebot becomes useful to them?

It probably would be more helpful on the pull side rather than the push side of the channel. Useful for consumption of content in certain situations by certain segments of readers.

Say, someone scanning through a list of legal docs to identify the most relevant ones. A short blurb would be pretty helpful.

Re: Show HN: Extract main ideas in your texts with SummarizeBot

#37

A couple thoughts: 1. Summarizing entire bodies of text down into "bite-sized" chunks isn't inherently a good thing. It seems the main use case (and at least the one suggested in the demo) is to be used for news articles. Now, I'm totally understanding of the fact that not everyone has the time to read every news article, but as it is, only reading part of the article (or more commonly, only reading the headline) is…

Here's a summarization I'd like (and would pay for[0]): chats. I mean IRC logs, Slack & Telegram groupchat logs, etc. Between work and local Hackerspace, people produce so much text on IM that I can't really keep up with it. I'd love a solution that I could feed such chat logs, and get back e.g. list of topics covered. -- [0] - as long as it wasn't a cloud SaaS where I have to share my data with vendor's machines.

Totally agree, I tried to prototype this but the datasets to train ML summarizations from are pretty much all from news articles. Trying to take that model and summaries chats resulted in gibberish for me. The salient take-aways from Chats and other non-factual / loosely structured text seems so dependent on what you care about, summarisation is difficult.

Re: Show HN: Extract main ideas in your texts with SummarizeBot

#38

What kind of a person writes enough that it becomes useful to summarize what they write, but is incapable of summarizing what they have written so that a summarizebot becomes useful to them?

It probably would be more helpful on the pull side rather than the push side of the channel. Useful for consumption of content in certain situations by certain segments of readers. Say, someone scanning through a list of legal docs to identify the most relevant ones. A short blurb would be pretty helpful.

sure, I was obliquely referring to the headline - Extract main ideas in YOUR texts... - seemed to prompt the question.

on edit: fixed misspelling, just woke up from nap.

Re: Show HN: Extract main ideas in your texts with SummarizeBot

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Are there any benchmarks for this kind of task, and how well does this tool perform w.r.t. them?

In terms of measurement, there's ROUGE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROUGE_(metric) In this paper they discuss a few benchmarks in their introduction and describe a new benchmark. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.08745.pdf
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