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Show HN: TL;DRizer - an algorithmic summarizer webapp/api in java (weekend hack)

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Re: Show HN: TL;DRizer - an algorithmic summarizer webapp/api in java (weekend hack)

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Post by logn »

Generated 5 Sentence Summary for http://www.businessinsider.com/why-marissa-mayer-bought-a-30...

Back in March, Yahoo bought a startup called Summly for $30 million. Before Yahoo shut it down, Summly was a news aggregation app for smartphones. According to Summly's own Web site, the technology behind the app was "built" by an organization called "SRI International," not by the startup's employees. And indeed, inside Yahoo, Summly is called "Yahoo's Siri." A source close to Yahoo says that CEO Marissa Mayer believes summarization technology is "going to be huge for Yahoo" as it builds "personalized news feeds" into mobile versions of its "core experiences," including Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Sports. The job of implementing this technology at Yahoo will not be given to anyone from Summly, including its young CEO.

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Generated 3 Sentence Summary of Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

Re: Show HN: TL;DRizer - an algorithmic summarizer webapp/api in java (weekend hack)

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Post by sherjilozair »

logn wrote: post #2

Generated 5 Sentence Summary for http://www.businessinsider.com/why-marissa-mayer-bought-a-30... Back in March, Yahoo bought a startup called Summly for $30 million. Before Yahoo shut it down, Summly was a news aggregation app for smartphones. According to Summly's own Web site, the technology behind the app was "built" by an organization called "SRI International," not by the startup's employees. And indeed, inside…

This misses the most important line in the article: Acquiring Summly seems to have been an almost incidental side effect of a deal Yahoo made with SRI for a piece of "summarization technology".

Re: Show HN: TL;DRizer - an algorithmic summarizer webapp/api in java (weekend hack)

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Post by shakeel_mohamed »

YES. As a college student, this is amazing for those long readings for classes one isn't interested int. I wanted to build sort of the reverse of this at one point (take a question/prompt as input, generate a response).

Are you planning on open sourcing this?

Re: Show HN: TL;DRizer - an algorithmic summarizer webapp/api in java (weekend hack)

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Post by mohaps »

sherjilozair wrote: post #4
logn wrote: post #2

Generated 5 Sentence Summary for http://www.businessinsider.com/why-marissa-mayer-bought-a-30... Back in March, Yahoo bought a startup called Summly for $30 million. Before Yahoo shut it down, Summly was a news aggregation app for smartphones. According to Summly's own Web site, the technology behind the app was "built" by an organization called "SRI International," not by the startup's employees. And indeed, inside…

This misses the most important line in the article: Acquiring Summly seems to have been an almost incidental side effect of a deal Yahoo made with SRI for a piece of "summarization technology".

the algo is still kinda "dumb". It basically tries to get top N keywords - most frequent non stopwords, stems them and goes through the sentences looking for which of them (upto max summary length) contain the keywords. I'll keep whittling at it over nights/weekends to see if I can make it more "semantically aware"

edit: some work is needed on the tokenization also. currently, I don't preserve non-period punctuation.

Re: Show HN: TL;DRizer - an algorithmic summarizer webapp/api in java (weekend hack)

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Post by mohaps »

shakeel_mohamed wrote: post #5

YES. As a college student, this is amazing for those long readings for classes one isn't interested int. I wanted to build sort of the reverse of this at one point (take a question/prompt as input, generate a response). Are you planning on open sourcing this?

yeah, I plan on open sourcing this. waiting on some technicalities.
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