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
Why we ask for Support, Suggestions and Donations?
Wiki Summarizer
is a huge undertaking in knowledge sharing that provides summaries of all Wikipedia
articles, developed by a small, dedicated team with limited resources. We rely solely
upon user support and welcome your contributions via PayPal to help us continually
index and update our Wikipedia sources; add servers; increase bandwidth and update
this site. Please try Wiki Summarizer
and share your experiences with us, as well as letting us know what else you would
like to see in the future. Our current release allows to:
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efficiently search across ALL Wikipedia pages for references to your topic
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download the summaries as text for your research, publishing, learning and blog
writing
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download the summaries as mind maps for instant visualization in your
favorite mind mapping application
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take notes – quickly collect topics and sentences
from all contextually relevant Wikipedia pages
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speed-up reading by condensing each article to the essential keywords and summaries
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make a long story short – the summaries headline most important sentences giving instant information capsules
Your donations, support and feedback will help making Wiki Summarizer
a valuable knowledge discovery companion to Wikipedia. Our goal is to facilitate
finding essential facts and identifying the relevant information hidden in documents
so we can all benefit from the wealth of facts stored in Wikipedia. Many thanks,
The Wiki Summarizer team