Re: text summarizers

From: Mark Jordan <mjordan_at_nyob>
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:14:28 -0800
To: CODE4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
Roy Tennant wrote:
> One thing to look at is iVia: <http://ivia.ucr.edu/>. It's not a summarizer
> per se, but the PhraseRate part of it will extract "key phrases" from a set
> of documents.
> Roy
>

Also along those lines, there's Classifier4J
(http://classifier4j.sourceforge.net/), "a Java library designed to do
text classification" which also does summarization.

Mark

>
> On 1/27/07 7:23 AM, "Eric Lease Morgan" <emorgan_at_ND.EDU> wrote:
>
>> Do y'all know of any open source text summarizers?
>>
>> I'm lazy, and I want to generate a summary of plain text documents. I
>> can use ots (open text summarizer) to do this work, but I would like
>> to compare and contrast it with other possibilities.
>>
>> Do you have any suggestions?
>>
>> --
>> Eric Lease Morgan


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