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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 mmahemoff »

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".

There's tons of human-generated TLDRs out there; I wonder if anyone's tried machine-learning from them.

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

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Post by mohaps »

peter_l_downs wrote: post #10

Awesome! Looks super similar to an old sideproject of mine, www.bookshrink.com. The algorithm's different -- yours is aimed more towards summaries, while mine was aimed at sentence importance.

yeah, I'm working on adding more summarizer algorithms. I've been thinking on the lines of weighing up rhetorical questions, weighing down exclamation mark (cheap sarcasm detection) etc.

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

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Post by HunterV »

Lorem Ipsum:

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To:

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So much faster to read, I never had the time to read through all those design mockups!

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

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Post by mohaps »

HunterV wrote: post #13

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well, it ain't called TL;DRizer for nothing! :P

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

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Post by HunterV »

mohaps wrote: post #14
HunterV wrote: post #13

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well, it ain't called TL;DRizer for nothing! :P

Seriously though, props!

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

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Post by syassami »

mohaps wrote: post #9
keeran wrote: post #8

Also see http://tldr.it (a RailsRumble 2010 entry)

nice :) much better UI. As you can tell, I really suck at HTML/JS coding.

check out twitter bootstrap, it's pretty simple to use and won't make your projects look so bad. Also, nice app

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

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Post by mohaps »

mohaps wrote: post #18
bambax wrote: post #15

Tried the rss feed from my blog and got an NPE: http://blog.medusis.com/rss Does it expect a specific format?

no, i use ROME to parse RSS feeds. So it should be able to handle whatever that can handle. Let me check

ah, got it. if no entry text is present, I was assuming each entry to have a description field. Fixed it. if both entry text and description are missing, it fetches the url text of the link and summarizes it. pushing to heroku
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