What is Wiki Summarizer?

Wiki Summarizer is a Web-based application specializing in automatic summarization of Wikipedia articles.

What is summarization?

Automatic summarization is the creation of a shortened version of a text by a computer program. The result is a summary that presents the most important points of the original text.

What is a summary?

A summary is a shorter version of the original information. It highlights the major points from the much longer article. The purpose is to help the reader to rapidly get the essential points in a short period of time.

How doesWiki Summarizer work?

The Wiki Summarizer automatically summarizes the Wikipedia articles. The program identifies the most important keywords and ranks them by relevancy. For each keyword the most significant sentences in the original text are presented to the reader.
All the summaries are stored in the Wiki Summarizer knowledge base. Users can easily search the knowledge base by keywords and download the summaries.

What is the "Summarize Wikipedia article" tab?

When a user enters a keyword in the "Summarize Wikipedia article" tab, a summary of the Wikipedia article is presented. The summaries can be downloaded to user’s text editor and mind mapping applications.

What is the "Search Wikipedia" tab?

When a user enters the keyword in the “Search Wikipedia” tab the search presents the most significant Wikipedia articles related to the keyword. The first link always points to the keyword “home page” where the term is defined and described. The other links point to the most significant use of the keyword with other subjects.
The summaries can be downloaded to user’s text and mind mapping applications.

What is the "Wikipedia Knowledge Base" tab?

When a user enters the keyword in the "Get Summaries" tab, the Wiki Summarizer presents complete summaries of the most relevant articles related to the keyword. The "Get Summaries" works as a back-of-the-book index. It contains references to all the keywords across all Wikipedia articles with pointers to all summaries ranked by relevancy.
The summaries can be downloaded to user’s text editor and mind mapping applications.

What is the "WebSummarizer" tab?

When a user enters a URL in the WebSummarizer tab, a summary of the Webpage article is presented. The summaries can be downloaded to user’s text editor and mind mapping applications. WebSummarizer provides summaries in English, French, German and Spanish.

What is the export to Rich Text Format (RTF)?

The Rich Text Format is a popular document interchange format. Most editors work with the RTF format so when you export the summaries most likely you will be able to edit them.

What is the export to Mindjet MindManager?

The export to MindManager application converts the summaries into a MindManager mind map. It is a convenient way to automatically create mind maps from Wikipedia articles. And since many mind mapping applications import the MindManager maps this format can be conveniently used for creating mind maps in majority of mind mapping applications.

What is the Wiki Summarizer knowledge base?

The Wiki Summarizer knowledge base is like a gigantic map pointing to the most important information in Wikipedia. This map allows instant retrieval of the most useful summaries across all Wikipedia articles. Users just need to enter a keyword of interest to get the summaries.
You can think about the knowledge base as a library of topics with summaries and relationships pointing to the most relevant information.
The summaries can be downloaded to user’s text editor and mind mapping applications.

Can I use the Wiki Summarizer technology for different information sources?

Yes. The Wiki Summarizer technology summarizes web pages and most popular document formats including PDF, Word, and TXT. A summarization application can be adapted to any website, SharePoint, corporate document repository and content management system.
As access and volume of data is rapidly increasing there is a need to simplify the ability to use and knowledge-mine information. In particular the use of information provided by search engines, RSS services, subscriptions to academic and professional libraries, massive amounts of blogs, websites, news alerts, etc. – all these sources are very suitable for the use of automatic summarization.

What can I use Wiki Summarizer for?

The phenomenon of information overload means that accessing the relevant information in the sea of text is difficult. There is too much to read and far too little time to do it. Wiki Summarizer works as a companion application to provide the most relevant summaries of the original Wikipedia articles. Coherent and accurate summaries are vital for a quick understanding.
If you are researching any topic, the Wiki Summarizer knowledge base will rapidly provide you with the list of the most relevant Wikipedia articles and summaries. If you are a student, a writer, a journalist, a busy professional, a blogger and need to quickly and efficiently learn, discover, analyze, review, compare, judge, and find out about any topics among the almost 4 million articles in Wikipedia you will find Wiki Summarizer a convenient companion application.

What is the contact information if I want to discuss the use of the technology for my applications?

Question and suggestion are welcome and encouraged. Please fill this formor email us at wikisummarizer@contextdiscovery.com