SummarizeBot
AI
text summarization
SHOW HN2018
How HN took it
5 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 10 critical, out of 26 comments about the project. Thread score -0.14.
Idea: 4 for, 8 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for skimming long rambling posts and legal documents
From 2 comments
It's great for long, rambling forum posts that keep hitting on the same points, and you want to find out if it's worth the time reading it.
defertoreptar on HNIt probably would be more helpful on the pull side rather than the push side of the channel. Useful for consumption of content in certain situations by certain segments of…
proxygeek on HN
Accepts many formats, including images via OCR and messenger access
From 1 comment
Idk about the blockchain stuff, but it is semi-featureful since it can extract text from images (I'm assuming its just using Tesseract OCR. At least it could get the text out of…
abhisuri97 on HN
Objections
Blockchain use is unexplained and seems like buzzword marketing
From 3 comments
> Hi, I am AI and Blockchain-Powered SummarizeBot! I assume the expected reaction is "Cool! They use blockchain." My reaction is moreso, "What on earth does this have to do with…
michaelmior on HNIs it abstractive or extractive? What exactly does this have to do with blockchain? The landing page is more marketing than technical and may not really be a good fit for this…
etaioinshrdlu on HNAs others have mentioned, I have no idea what any of this has to do with blockchain, or how it could even conceivably help with anything other than riding a hype train. That…
anon1253 on HN
Fake news detection is a black box with unclear metrics
From 1 comment
A couple thoughts: 1. Summarizing entire bodies of text down into "bite-sized" chunks isn't inherently a good thing. It seems the main use case (and at least the one suggested in…
txcwpalpha on HN
Summaries from extractive output lack coherence
From 1 comment
Same thoughts: 1) I did try on https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-prisonstay-idUSKCN1NS0JB and from 20% and 40% summary I have no clue of the actual meaning of the…
lfx on HN
Summarizing news encourages reading only headlines
From 1 comment
A couple thoughts: 1. Summarizing entire bodies of text down into "bite-sized" chunks isn't inherently a good thing. It seems the main use case (and at least the one suggested in…
txcwpalpha on HN
Requests
Demo text field on the landing page
From 1 comment
Why not have a paste text field for a quick demo on the landing page? Best pre-filled (some cherry picking is ok :) ).
anotheryou on HN
Summarize chat logs locally rather than in a cloud SaaS
From 1 comment
Here's a summarization I'd like (and would pay for[0]): chats. I mean IRC logs, Slack & Telegram groupchat logs, etc. Between work and local Hackerspace, people produce so much…
TeMPOraL on HN
Questions
Is it abstractive or extractive?
From 2 comments
Is it abstractive or extractive? What exactly does this have to do with blockchain? The landing page is more marketing than technical and may not really be a good fit for this…
etaioinshrdlu on HNMy heuristic here is that if they don't say abstractive then it must be extractive. Simply because the former is so much more difficult.
miketery on HN
What are the benchmarks and how does it perform against state of the art?
From 3 comments
Are there any benchmarks for this kind of task, and how well does this tool perform w.r.t. them?
amelius on HNAs others have mentioned, I have no idea what any of this has to do with blockchain, or how it could even conceivably help with anything other than riding a hype train. That…
anon1253 on HNIn terms of measurement, there's ROUGE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROUGE_(metric) In this paper they discuss a few benchmarks in their introduction and describe a new…
team-o on HN
Alternatives named
Yahoo's acquired article summarizer app
From 1 comment
I guess it is like that software that Yahoo bought from a 15 year-old that summarized articles:…
wj on HN