How about summarizing blog posts for twitter?
I don't think that has been done - that might be worth exploring and would definitely be cool...
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#12You could build a studying / note-taking app. Feed in source articles (textbook, PDF, et all) and have it automatically generate outlines. Customizable SparkNotes. This could be useful to every student in the world.
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#13Is it multidocument summarization? I wrote a term paper on this back in school some years ago and though the technology is very interesting, it left a little to be desired (so I wonder what the state of the art is now). The applications I studied for this are removing bias in e.g. news articles, critic's reviews, etc.
Mine is only single document summarization. Yes, it's an interesting technology but I think there is not much of improvement.
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#14How about summarizing blog posts for twitter?
This is a cool idea. But the algorithm only extracts the most important sentences. What will happen is it will just tweet the most important sentence in the blog post (considering that it's 140 characters or less).
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#15You could build a studying / note-taking app. Feed in source articles (textbook, PDF, et all) and have it automatically generate outlines. Customizable SparkNotes. This could be useful to every student in the world.
Can extracted sentences be considered as outline?
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#16Summly ( http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/12/17/meet-the-16-year-old-w... ) does exactly this... It was created by a 16-year-old and generated tons of press, getting VC funding and all... It's worth noting that the app website is down and it's not available on the App Store anymore; however, according to their Twitter feed, a new version is supposed to be released soon...
Tried Summly, as a matter of fact, it is included in my related systems. I don't know what happen to them that they don't exist as of today. Well, in my opinion, it doesn't summarize that good.
You also might want to check Cruxbot (http://www.cruxbot.com/).
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#18You could build a studying / note-taking app. Feed in source articles (textbook, PDF, et all) and have it automatically generate outlines. Customizable SparkNotes. This could be useful to every student in the world.
Can extracted sentences be considered as outline?
The summary for the TechCrunch article you posted below reads to me like an outline. As long as the extractions encapsulate the main themes and ideas of a certain piece, they would be viable study tools.
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#19Re: Ask HN: What product can be built around automatic summarization algorithms?
#20Summly ( http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/12/17/meet-the-16-year-old-w... ) does exactly this... It was created by a 16-year-old and generated tons of press, getting VC funding and all... It's worth noting that the app website is down and it's not available on the App Store anymore; however, according to their Twitter feed, a new version is supposed to be released soon...
Summly seems to have been redesigned (http://summly.com)... It looks pretty cool, at least from their website and a few sample summaries...