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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 pie

• mohaps 14y ago
  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.
  • romain_g 14y ago
    You might want to look into topic modeling to extract the most meaningful topics (set of co-occuring words). It could greatly improve your results compared to the keyword approach. Interesting initiative, keep us posted !
• mmahemoff 14y ago
  There's tons of human-generated TLDRs out there; I wonder if anyone's tried machine-learning from them.