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Re:Show HN: TL;DRizer - an algorithmic summarizer webapp/api... by mohaps on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @03:05AM (#5523644)
the algo is still kinda "dumb". It basically tries to get top N keywords - most frequent non stopwords, stems them and goes through the sentences looking for which of them (upto max summary length) contain the keywords. I'll keep whittling at it over nights/weekends to see if I can make it more "semantically aware"

edit: some work is needed on the tokenization also. currently, I don't preserve non-period punctuation.

Re:Show HN: TL;DRizer - an algorithmic summarizer webapp/api... by romain_g on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @06:30AM (#5524263)
You might want to look into topic modeling to extract the most meaningful topics (set of co-occuring words). It could greatly improve your results compared to the keyword approach. Interesting initiative, keep us posted !