Summarizing news articles the way the bot does isn't really that difficult. You face the task of picking 5 sentences out of 20. Since journalists write in a v

Summarizing news articles the way the bot does isn't really that difficult. You face the task of picking 5 sentences out of 20. Since journalists write in a very compact style, the result will almost always look decent. You just follow a few simple rules like: - Length of sentence without stopwords - Distribution of words across the article - Words shared with the title - Position in the article - Position in the paragraph - Does the sentence address the subject in third person? (avoid) - Does the sentence contain direct speech? (avoid) Stuff like this. It's a bit of a Mechanical Turk, really.