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if you paste this thread into the demo you get not very encouraging results. I haven't looked at the code but I suspect they find the sentences with most (cosin
by hnriot 13y ago
if you paste this thread into the demo you get not very encouraging results. I haven't looked at the code but I suspect they find the sentences with most (cosine) similarity to the title and bias towards early sentences.
results:
- Hacker Newsnew | threads | comments | ask | jobs | submit hnriot (1618) | logout upvote TextTeaser – An automatic - summarization algorithm (github.com)
- If you leave the "Title" field empty and click "Summarize", nothing happens -- which I thought was very confusing.
- reply upvote downvote MojoJolo 1 hour ago | link I require the title because I need it for the algorithm.
- not a criticism of textteaser (which was behind this excellent project https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6498625 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6498625),
- reply upvote downvote wikiburner 3 minutes ago | link Is this a well known text summarization tool?
- MojoJolo 13y agoHahaha. It sucks. The algo is not meant for this kind of websites. Try out news articles! :)
- draugadrotten 13y agohttp://www.textteaser.com/s/T4PQ1s http://www.textteaser.com/s/T4PQ1s Not sure it captures the essence of the source article's argument. The fourth bullet makes no sense at all. I can't see it being useful at this stage. Can you provide us with a list of articles that it manages to summarize properly? It's great to see the project on github though. I look forward to seeing it improved over time. Thanks for sharing.