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by rahooligan 5001 days ago
This is really cool & solves a problem for me. I installed the bookmarklet and am looking forward to using it. I see that you are relying on the community to summarize pages & don't have a large enough data set built up yet.

What would be awesome is if you could somehow automate summarization using NLP. Check out condensr.com. They are able to summarize restaurant reviews...might not be at the same quality level as your current summaries but it came out of research from MIT & could be useful to you.

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Hi, thanks a lot for the feedback! we're glad that we're solving a problem for you! You're right that we have little content for now, but we don't think NLP is the answer.

Humans are so much better than algorithms at summarizing content and we really want to focus on quality rather than quantity for now. We want to become a platform for the content that people deem worthy of being summarized and are hopeful that the overall quality will therefore be astounding. As such we are focusing on building a community of excited contributors.

I'll definitely checkout condensr.com to see if it can help at all though!