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Can I ask what you mean by summarize below the sentence level? Thanks!

• ColanR 8y ago
  See the subsection titled "Abstraction-based summarization" in the article. Basically, instead of copying important sentences verbatim (and spending all your analysis on choosing those sentences), rewrite entire paragraphs into new and unique sentences. No more plagiarism, because nothing is a direct copy.
  • heyyyouu 8y ago
    That's interesting. One thing about plagiarism is that derivative works are considered plagiarism, even if the direct language is no longer used. https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.pdf https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.pdf A court would have to rule, of course, but I wonder if this would actually get around that. That said, as US caselaw currently stands summaries are completely legal to a certain length -- you can't stop someone from summarizing what exists, it's like sharing a fact -- but you can't create a derivative work. So as long as the resulting output was short enough you shouldn't have to worry anyhow about plagiarism, since summary is covered, but if it's longer, derivative could be an issue. Anyway, thank you -- very interesting!
    • ColanR 8y ago
      > So as long as the resulting output was short enough you shouldn't have to worry anyhow about plagiarism Ya, that's what I was trying to get at when I mentioned summarizing paragraphs into sentences. I think we're on the same page there. :)
      • heyyyouu 8y ago
        Ah, gotcha! :-)