The other day I read about Summly, which claims “Our summarization technology is pure rocket science.” They got quite hyped by the usual suspects such as Techcrunch. So I decided to give it a try.
I picked to news stories at random and compared them to their original. Here’s the result:
Transocean’s lacustre results:
Except some date and stock ticker cleansing Summly’s summary is simply the title and the first two sentences.
Again: Title and the first two sentences are the same…
At least in this short test I have not discovered any rocket science unless you call some simple text parsing rocket science. But that would do great injustice to the folks the put humans into space.
Question: Why do the journalist at Techcrunch not notice this?