This was also the foundation for Summly. The problem is that it is flawed. It doesn't take in to account emotion, or emphasis.
What is the most important sentence in this:
Drakaal is a poopy head. He often posts to hackernews and calls people an idiot. When this happens I get mad.
The Premise is "Drakaal is a poopy head" so that is the most important, but it doesn't inform the user. What he does is the most telling of the sentences, but with the "He" as the first word you can't actually make sense of the content with out the prior sentence. The last sentence is the least important for the understanding of the content.
It is important to know that sentence number 2 is the most informative, but that to figure out what it means requires Sentence 1.
When computing the results of a summary you have to weigh sentence dependencies, density of information, amount of emotion expressed and number of characters available to you.
And Keywords aren't enough, you need noun entities and the ability to tell the relationships of words so that you know "Cars, Trucks, and Automobiles" are all the same concept in many contexts.
What is the most important sentence in this:
Drakaal is a poopy head. He often posts to hackernews and calls people an idiot. When this happens I get mad.
The Premise is "Drakaal is a poopy head" so that is the most important, but it doesn't inform the user. What he does is the most telling of the sentences, but with the "He" as the first word you can't actually make sense of the content with out the prior sentence. The last sentence is the least important for the understanding of the content.
It is important to know that sentence number 2 is the most informative, but that to figure out what it means requires Sentence 1.
When computing the results of a summary you have to weigh sentence dependencies, density of information, amount of emotion expressed and number of characters available to you.
And Keywords aren't enough, you need noun entities and the ability to tell the relationships of words so that you know "Cars, Trucks, and Automobiles" are all the same concept in many contexts.