Looks like he took the extraction approach [1] - copy the information deemed most important by the system to the summary. The second approach, abstraction, invo

Looks like he took the extraction approach [1] - copy the information deemed most important by the system to the summary. The second approach, abstraction, involves paraphrasing sections of the source document. It seems much harder. There are some interesting summarizers accessible on the web : http://search.iiit.ac.in/~jags/summarizer/index.cgi http://search.iiit.ac.in/~jags/summarizer/index.cgi Machine learning, as always, is uber-cool. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_summarization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_summarization