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A comment on Ask HN: Is there a future for automatic summarization startups?.

Re:Ask HN: Is there a future for automatic summarization sta... by scotto on Monday September 10, 2012 @11:59AM (#4500450)
I believe there is, but like hbbio said it's a matter of the product. You can make the algorithm into a product by offering it through an API to other developers.
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Re:Ask HN: Is there a future for automatic summarization sta... by MojoJolo on Monday September 10, 2012 @12:15PM (#4500537)
Yes, APIs can change an algorithm into a product. This was done by Diffbot (http://www.diffbot.com/) which presents different text algorithms. I love their API, and currently using it for my thesis.
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