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Re: Summly: intelligent news summarisation

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Post by mej10 »

pratyushmittal wrote: post #2

The Summly blog mentions about a demo to "let people enter a web site’s URL and receive a summary of the content." Anyway to still use that? The idea sounds very exciting and an online bookmarklet can super-useful to TL;DR anything.

That would be really awesome. Overall I like this landing page, but my main question is "how good is the summary?" and "Can I trust the summary generated?"

Maybe non-technical people are just like, "Yeah! Awesome!" and that is all that matters. My thoughts are "How good is it? This is a hard problem and there is probably a lot of money in it. Why haven't other companies developed this?"

The app itself and the site look nice.

Re: Summly: intelligent news summarisation

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Post by MojoJolo »

Is he doing extraction or abstraction? I'm doing a research about automatic summarization and also creating an app for it. Summly and my idea has a different approach but I'm curious in some aspects of how summly summarizes articles.

I think last year, Summly was pulled out in the app store. Back in those days, the quality of there summary is not that impressive. I'm still downloading the app and will check its performance.

Re: Summly: intelligent news summarisation

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Post by TeeWEE »

From the looks of the website, the video and what the apps does, it looks like the idea got too much funding.

Cmo'n they even have a famous person in their clip!

Most news sites already give a summary in an RSS feed. This is most of the time sufficient.

I think that a good idea should sell itself, not with all this fancy pancy.

-- Facts: 17 year developer got a $250.000 funding http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/12/17/meet-the-16-year-old-w...

Re: Summly: intelligent news summarisation

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Post by BruceIV »

mej10 wrote: post #3
pratyushmittal wrote: post #2

The Summly blog mentions about a demo to "let people enter a web site’s URL and receive a summary of the content." Anyway to still use that? The idea sounds very exciting and an online bookmarklet can super-useful to TL;DR anything.

That would be really awesome. Overall I like this landing page, but my main question is "how good is the summary?" and "Can I trust the summary generated?" Maybe non-technical people are just like, "Yeah! Awesome!" and that is all that matters. My thoughts are "How good is it? This is a hard problem and there is probably a lot of money in it. Why haven't other companies developed this?" The app itself and the site lo…

Very interesting. I'm on Android, so I can't actually try out the app, but I'd be interested to see what kind of compression ratio they get, how understandable it is, and if they hit all the major points. I'm also curious if they can create an intelligent summary of a cluster of related articles (say, the explosion of news recently about Disney buying out Lucasfilm), which seems like a problem that would be almost as hard as "general AI".

Re: Summly: intelligent news summarisation

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Post by orofino »

hoodwink wrote: post #4

Very impressive design / interface. The summaries help me decide which articles to read in full, as opposed to being abridged versions of the full stories. Still useful, but not a substitute for my Times Digest ( http://www.timesdigest.com/ ).

They don't seem to indicate the cost without signing up for this, what do they charge you for the times digest? Also, is there an easy way to get it that isn't a pdf?

Sorry to hit you with a barrage of questions, but this is interesting and I didn't get much info from their site. IT seems that this is intended for larger entities to distribute to clients for the most part. They do have an individuals section, but without much info.

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