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Re: Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click

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Post by radhakrsna »

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #79

Good luck! I tried to launch something like this years ago [0] specifically to summarize HN, it's not easy but I think there's value in this type of service. In my case, the summarization was manual - I wanted to see if people liked the service, before building the summarization engine. I also created a chrome extension to be able to see summarize with just one click from HN itself. [0]: https://github.com/simonebrun…

Wow, thanks for sharing. Yes, it's certainly a very valuable service but it is very hard to get it to work on every kind of article. I am just getting into NLP and would definitely like to explore other approaches to solving this problem.

Re: Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click

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Post by radhakrsna »

mgxplyr wrote: post #81
simonebrunozzi wrote: post #79

Good luck! I tried to launch something like this years ago [0] specifically to summarize HN, it's not easy but I think there's value in this type of service. In my case, the summarization was manual - I wanted to see if people liked the service, before building the summarization engine. I also created a chrome extension to be able to see summarize with just one click from HN itself. [0]: https://github.com/simonebrun…

This would be a great type of service for news publishers. Digital producers often have to type out summaries (bullets) in stories for those who don't bother reading full articles. If it could be automated by sending the story copy via an API and getting back summary bullets, it would certainly be valuable.

Yes, that sounds like a valuable application of article summarization but it would be hard to generate high-quality summaries that are very readable.

Re: Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click

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Post by cordite »

I tried this on my website where gallery images are interspersed with the text.

Unfortunately, this selected almost only the gallery credits lines (By (name) with (person one, person two))

How should I say to automated things: this html is not important for extraction?

Re: Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click

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Post by rrwright »

nkozyra wrote: post #70
radhakrsna wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah right, thank you for the detailed explanation. Currently, we are processing the text using a Python backend. In order to process it on the user's side, I guess we'll have to use Javascript. I will try to fix that in the next version. Thank you very much.

You don't need to move anything to the client side, what you're doing is covered under fair use doctrine.

Maybe. Almost nothing is straightforward about fair use.

Re: Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click

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Post by xwdv »

radhakrsna wrote: post #48
xwdv wrote: post #38

Is there a premium version where I can have text summarized by actual living, breathing, human beings?

Hi, Currently, we don't provide that but that's a very good suggestion.

It is the only way I would use such a service. Text extraction is a neat trick but by no means useful for serious comprehension. Even if the service wasn’t in real time, having a place I could dump a bunch of articles into and get back a quick summary of what it’s about at some later time would be useful. Sometimes I read comments for hackernews articles to look for a tl;dr and never bother even opening the article.

Re: Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click

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Post by steve19 »

p1esk wrote: post #84
steve19 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm interested in learning about true generation algorithms. Can you point me in the right direction?

Google “gpt-2”.

Thanks but that is not what the OP is claiming. That generates text from a seed, the OP is talking about an article that generates a summary of an article, but without using existing sentences.

Re: Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click

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Post by p1esk »

steve19 wrote: post #98
p1esk wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google “gpt-2”.

Thanks but that is not what the OP is claiming. That generates text from a seed, the OP is talking about an article that generates a summary of an article, but without using existing sentences.

Did you read the paper? https://d4mucfpksywv.cloudfront.net/better-language-models/l...

You don’t need any seed, and can generate summaries (section 3.6).

GPT-2 is the model to learn about if you’re interested in NLP.

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