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Re:TL;DR — Faster News by hnriot on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @01:40PM (#4815613)
>My basic point is that they will most likely produce paragraphs that are out of context.

Disagree - having written a bunch of these gist extractors I have found that the good ones do not produce out of context paragraphs. In fact, that's pretty much the point - to find the salient portion of the content.

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Re:TL;DR — Faster News by MichaelApproved on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @05:55PM (#4816747)
My argument is that many times the salient portion is written in such a way that it's continuing a point from a previous part of the article. So, when you remove it from the complete context of the article, the sentence seems like it's out of place even if it has an important detail.
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