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From: Brian Michalowski <bam@cs.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Re : Document Summarizing & Analysis Tool 
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On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, Alasdair McIntyre wrote:

> I was under the impression that MS's summariser tended to go for the
> first sentence of each paragraph, so that if the document isn't written
> with summarisation in mind, the results may not be as great as one might

   I've seen a demonstration of the summarizer, and I know it looks at 
more than just the first sentence.  For one thing, you can specify how 
much summarization you want, so it might keep nearly the entire text or 
just a few sentences depending on what you specify.  

   How representative these sentences are is a whole other matter. I don't
know accurate the product actually is . 

-- Brian

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