summarize text

[Barry]

On 29 May 2006 07:52:33 -0700, gene tani <gene.tani at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> robin wrote:
> > hello list,
> >
> > does anyone know of a library which permits to summarise text? i've
> > been looking at nltk but haven't found anything yet. any help would be
>
> unclear what you're asking, maybe look at:
> http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml/weka/index.html
>
> http://www.kdnuggets.com/software/suites.html
> http://www.ailab.si/orange
>
> http://mallet.cs.umass.edu/index.php/Main_Page
> http://minorthird.sourceforge.net/
> http://www.dia.uniroma3.it/db/roadRunner/
>
> http://www.lemurproject.org/
>
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Text summarization is a big problem, unlikely to be solved by calling on an
established  library.

Although it's not entirely clear what you are hoping to do, the links above
are for document searching, document classification,  or data mining.

But if you mean something like a news brief or a plot summary, check out the
Document Understanding Conferences, http://duc.nist.gov/
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