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Text Summariser

A toolkit for integrating text summaries into other products, and an end-user tool for summarising text documents.

There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.
H. L. Mencken, quoted in Esquire magazine, 1965

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Applications
  • Document management; Work-flow and groupware products such as Lotus Notes
  • Enhancing the text-retrieval paradigm by providing over-views and drill downs
  • Reducing information overload by summarising e-mails for quick read/discard decisions
  • Internet and Intranet publishing
  • Document abstracting as an extension to Microsoft Word
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    Technology

    		 The Concept Engine can be used to generate several forms of abstracts, such as:
  • One-liner abstracts
  • Dynamically re-sizeable abstracts
  • Speed-read versions of the original document
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    Focused summaries These abstracts can either be from the point of view of the document itself, or can be angled to a natural language query. This last feature works very well alongside a searching system, as the abstacts provide a way of 'drilling-down' into the document.
    the Concept Engine When creating an abstract, the Concept Engine bases its analysis on 'Discussion Flow Analysis', a technique which constrains the resultant abstract to have the same flow of meaning as the original document. Apart from giving much better quality abstracts than statistical techniques or Computational Linguistic (rule based) techniques, Discussion Flow Analysis allows an abstract to be focused on some particular aspect.

    Toolkit

    		 There are a number of ways in which your organisation can exploit our technology's ability to generate abstracts on the fly:
    1. Link the Concept Engine into your applications for summaries of text documents.
    2. Use the DDE interface to Lectern for Windows '95 and NT
    Technical details are availale on the Systems Developer page.
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    Abstracting for Windows '95 and NT - Lectern

    		 Using the Concept Engine, Software Scientific has produced a Windows '95 and NT document abstractor named Lectern. Lectern can create abstracts of documents held on your hard disk. Because it also supports DDE, Lectern can be started and run by Panoramic, our hard disk text retrieval and research system.
    Lectern producing a pure summary of an earlier version of our home page.
    Demo There is a demo version of Lectern available in our software download area. If you would like to buy a copy, please contact us.