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Cheers.

Samidh , I understand multi-document summarization really well, if fact you can use the traditional SVD (singular value decomposition) , NNMF (non-negative matrix factorisation) as shown here ( Multi-document Summarization Based on Cluster Using Non-negative Matrix Factorization) , the HMM (hidden Markov Model) as described here (CLASSY Query-Based Multi-Document Summarization) and more. These codes are available on the internet already (not necessary for text summarisation application) and it won’t be too long before someone adopts them into a free summariser, since the hard part is already been done (the development of those algorithms) and all it needs is a UI to be developed and some text processing codes and that’s it.

I haven’t done development in this area, but I am quite familiar with the algorithms used in text summarisation, since I am already using HMM, SVD, NNMF and so on for development in certain projects.

Also I have come across a project (I can’t recall the title of the paper) where the authors are working/developing their multi-document summarizer as an open source. As I said that it won’t be too long before it appears on the internet.

Samidh , I am not giving your product a negative comment, it is just that you & your team must be vigilant. Always look out for new algorithms from the literatures (or develop new ones for your own use which is proprietary), because you well know that there is something called unique product in software as the amount of computing peer review researches in different topics outstrips their adoptions in technology implementations. I mean that there are more algorithms lying there in the literatures being unused , then startups or companies adopting them for product development, so one has to always watch out either by scouring the literatures continually or develop his/her own proprietary algorithm (which must be better than the currently available ones – either those in commercial use or those unused ones available in the literatures) or otherwise , there is no point in developing inferior proprietary ones.

Anyway, congratulation for taking a step to commercialize your product. Perhaps, you might want to add an extra functionalities into your product , such as text classification or something like that, which makes it unique. Having a summarisation capability only by itself, might look a little dangerous since there might be open source project/s emerging that do exactly the same thing. I am confident that there will be multi-document summarization open source project that will emerge (soon or later).

Just a thought.

As for how this is better than the 5-star system, we actually wrote a blog topic exactly about this. Check out http://blog.plu...-of-five-stars/

BTW why shops do not do the same? Small screen to check amazon and other reviews would be a great help for customers

Full text reviews help readers understand how a product was tested, what the reviewer wanted in the product and whether the reviewer’s IQ exceeds room temperature. All Pluribo adds is a language of grunts (”have screen…” “screen good” “me want screen”)

@Falafulu – I assure you we wouldn’t have built Pluribo if there were already good solutions out there. In particular, the problem we are tackling is called “multi-document summarization”. It requires the understanding of multiple sources of information and synthesizing them down into one summary. There’s definitely nothing out there that can do this well. It remains a difficult research problem. It is our aspiration that we can work with the academic research community to continue to try to crack this problem.

well amazon can never buy this guys out since a independent company is what will make their reviews appear less bias if they buy them out then everything will point towards good
so what will be their exit stratergy maybe they are hoping yahoo will come and buy them out since yahoo is the only one that i know of who has ever bought a firefox plugin

the plugin is good though

There are some free codes available on the internet already for text-summarization, which does the same thing as the Pluribo’s plugin.