Ask HN: Is there a future for automatic summarization startups?

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14 years ago

I'm currently doing my MS thesis which is about automatic summarization. I'm also creating a web app (http://www.indiegogo.com/TextTeaser?a=1110234) to showcase it.

Some startups doing automatic summarization are Cruxbot (http://www.cruxbot.com/) and Summly. Like those apps, my thesis is also doing extraction only. It just extracts the most important sentences in an article that is determined by several features.

So, is there a future for the apps (including mine) that I mentioned? Or is there a future for automatic summarization in general?

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