WikiSummarizer is a Web-based application specializing in automatic summarization
of Wikipedia articles.
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.
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 quickly
get the essential points in a short period of time.
WikiSummarizer 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. You instantly
get the headlines with the most important sentences and keywords.
The blending of visualization with summarization, knowledge browsing, mind mapping
provides you with a wide range of means to explore relevant content. At a glance,
without much reading, you immediately spot the key information chunks.
All the summaries are stored in the WikiSummarizer knowledge base. Users can easily
search the knowledge base by keywords and download the summaries.
In fact when we are summarizing, we are zipping through the whole content,
homing in on the important chunks. The summaries give us a feel for the whole article.
The summarization works like a powerful filter to save time and effort.
With the ability to summarize web pages everybody can become an instant speed
reader. With just a click of a button, WikiSummarizer extracts
the most relevant keywords and sentences!
You instantly see what the web page is about. The key points are highlighted.
This brings your view into focus. You can view any part of the
text that contains your favorite keywords. You can rapidly take notes
and create mind maps complete with references to the sources.
You get more done in less time. You don’t have to struggle with
the text or train to become champion speed reader. And you don’t have to struggle
with information overload.
With WikiSummarizer you can skim through the key points to easily discover what’s
important to you. The summaries of interest lead you to the next step by suggesting
search refinements. Use newly discovered keywords to make your searches more specific
and relevant. In effect, with summarization you substantially reduce the time to
discover valuable knowledge.
The summarization helps with answering such questions as:
- Is this relevant to what I’m looking for?
- Will this give me the answers I’m looking for?
- Is this related to my interest?
- What are the main topics discussed?
An effective summary is highly readable and focused on the most relevant information.
It provides a way to gain quick understanding.
Summarizing is important for strategic readers because it helps
rapidly grasp the meaning of text. Providing accurate and concise
presentation of the original text's most important points is at the heart of helpful
summaries.
The extracted keywords serve as a powerful checklist guiding your eyes
from one relevant point to another relevant point. In effect the long original
text is reduced without missing the main points and without distorting
the meaning and intentions of the original version. The ability to identify
the key topics and sentences and present them as Visual Summaries
is WikiSummarizer's the most valuable capability.
WikiSummarizer filtering, summarizing and visualization help users quickly locate
the essential information they are looking for. This is achieved by generating highly
effective summaries that allow you to evaluate content by reducing the valuable
time you spend on hunting for relevant information.
The key benefits are:
- Ease of understanding - visual and structured preview of content helps you determine
relevance without reading the entire text
- Easy navigation - keywords and summary sentences are presented
in a convenient outline format
- Convenient downloading of Visual Summaries, Tree Views, Keyword
Clouds and mind maps
- Speedy information reviews - you can scan the keyword list, select keywords of interest
and keep in view only the related summaries
- Rapid note taking – the summarization gives you a head start on note taking by
spotlighting keywords and key sentences. You can select the passages and
keywords of most interest and download them as structured outlines and mind maps.
- Convenient referencing and citation sourcing by providing access
to the entire Wikipedia content organized as a knowledge base.
Visual presentation is at the heart of good communication and the key to speeding
up learning. WikiSummarizer offers 3 ways to visually review the summaries:
- as Visual Summaries – interactive maps;
- as Visual Trees - structured outlines; and
- as Keyword Clouds linked to the Wikipedia Knowledge base.
Each of these presentation formats offers specific advantages for quick evaluation,
learning and communication.
These highly complementary and interactive presentation formats are focused on making
learning and discovery effortless and stimulating curiosity and innovation.
Visual Summary is an interactive map of the key topics and summaries. You can easily
zoom in on any topic for more details and easily zoom out to get the overall picture.
Visual Summary offers a very effective method for illustrating the essential concepts
and summaries. The keywords form a map with links to the related
summaries.
In effect, Visual Summary is an interactive map that users can quickly navigate
by opening and hiding the details as needed. The most important keywords are located
on the top of the map. In addition, Short Summary and Full Summary are presented.
Tree View is an interactive outline presented as a tree structure. It is a form
of executive summary spotlighting the most essential content. The keywords generate
a table of contents, guiding users to the related summaries.
Keyword Cloud offers a visual representation of text in the form of keyword metadata.
The importance of the keywords is indicated by font size. The larger the font, the
more important the keyword is. Keyword Clouds are useful for quickly perceiving
the most prominent topics. The keywords are hyperlinked to Wikipedia Knowledge base,
a module of WikiSummarizer.
WikiSummarizer 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.
- Select the Summarize Wikipedia article tab.
- Enter any keyword; you can also select keywords from the suggestions provided.
- Click on the Summarize button.
Note 1: If the keyword you entered is not described in Wikipedia,
the message "Unable to find article" will be displayed. Please check the spelling
for capital and smaller case letters and singular or plural form.
Note 2: If you use a keyword that has multiple meanings, you will
be presented with a selection "may refer to". By simply clicking on any of the choices,
the Visual Summary will be created.
- Select the Wikipedia Knowledge Base tab.
- Enter a keyword and click the Search button.
- The search results provide a list of summaries from Wikipedia that contain the desired
keyword.
- Each item on the list provides summaries for the keyword.
- In the "Display first" file you can choose the number of summaries.
Note 1: If the keyword you entered is not described in Wikipedia,
you will see the message "Unable to find article."
Note 2: If you use a keyword that has multiple meanings, you will
be presented with a selection "may refer to". By simply clicking on any of the choices,
the Visual Summary will be created.
If you would like to publish Keyword Clouds you can click on the Get HTML code button
to obtain the HTML code you need for embedding the Keyword Cloud in you blog, website,
email, and documents
To select your view, choose the radio buttons. You can keep switching between the
views.
Wikipedia requires exact spelling of keywords and phrases. The spelling is case
sensitive. If your term is spelled in Wikipedia with a capital letter and you entered
it using lower case, the summary may not be generated. Also, some of the Wikipedia
articles are entered as singular and plural forms so you need sometimes to experiment.
The summarization works best when the web pages contain text. Web pages containing
only graphics and/or videos cannot be summarized. The more text on the page, the
better the generated summaries.
You can export summaries to your text editor. RTF is a popular document interchange
format. Most editors work with the RTF format so when you export the summaries,
you will be able to easily edit them to suit your needs.
The HTML export presents the summary using Visual Summary, which can be displayed
in any web browser. Visual Summary provides users with the ability to navigate summaries
using keywords. It is a convenient way to focus attention on the desired content.
Visual Summaries can be shared as interactive maps that can be uploaded to blogs
and websites to illustrate the textual content.
The export to Mindjet MindManager application converts summaries to MindManager
mind maps. It is a convenient way to automatically create mind maps from web pages
and documents. Since many mind mapping applications import MindManager maps, this
format can be conveniently used for creating mind maps in most mind mapping applications.
The export to XMind converts summaries into XMind mind maps.
The export to MindGenius converts summaries into MindGenius mind maps.
The export to iThoughts converts summaries into iThoughts mind maps for iPad and
iPhone users.
Yes. The WikiSummarizer 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.
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. WikiSummarizer 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 WikiSummarizer 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 WikiSummarizer a convenient companion application.
Question and suggestion are welcome and encouraged. Please share your feedback using
the Contact us form.
WikiSummarizer 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 WikiSummarizer 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:
- efficiently visualize and summarize articles across ALL Wikipedia pages for references
to your research topics
- download the summaries as Visual Summaries, Tree Views, Keyword Clouds to assist
your research, publishing, learning and blog writing
- download the summaries as mind maps for instant visualization in your favorite mind
mapping application
- take notes – quickly collect topics and sentences from all contextually relevant
Wikipedia pages
- speed-up reading by condensing each article to the essential keywords and summaries
- make a long story short – the summaries headline most important sentences giving
instant information capsules
Your donations, support and feedback help making WikiSummarizer 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 WikiSummarizer team
WebSummarizer automatically creates intelligent summaries from web pages, documents
and plain text. It is a valuable research and discovery application providing powerful
visualization and efficient text analysis tools. The blending of visualization with
summarization, knowledge browsing, mind mapping, plus integration with 3-rd party
tools provides users with a wide range of means to explore relevant web contents,
follow social media trends and analyze corporate contents.
The summaries are presented in context of your research topics.
You instantly get the headlines with the most important sentences and keywords.
At a glance, without much reading, you immediately spot the key information chunks.
WebSummarizer as your web research companion allows to summarize
any Web pages and documents. You can skim through the key points to easily discover
what’s important to you. The summaries of interest lead you to the next step by
suggesting search refinements. Use newly discovered keywords to make your searches
more specific and relevant. In effect, with summarization you substantially reduce
the time to discover valuable knowledge.
The summarization helps with answering such questions as:
- Is this relevant to what I’m looking for?
- Will this give me the answers I’m looking for?
- Is this related to my interest?
- What are the main topics discussed?
WikiSummarizer - a component of WebSummarizer - provides access
to the summaries of the entire English Wikipedia.
The Wikipedia Knowledge Base - a component of WikiSummarizer -
is a library of all English Wikipedia articles summarized and ready for instant
access. Use it for accelerating online research to pinpoint the facts and obtain
useful references about the topics you are examining.
Essential facts. With the Wikipedia Knowledge Base you have at
your fingertips access to over 3 millions of summarized articles. These articles
provide nearly 5 millions of keywords and 28 millions of facts readily available!
Each keyword is “clickable” and linked to a relevant Wikipedia article. All information
is structured, easy to download and publish as Visual Summaries, Tree Views, Keyword
Clouds and as mind maps.
In fact when we are summarizing, we are zipping through the whole content, homing
in on the important chunks. The summaries give us a feel for the whole article.
The summarization works like a powerful filter to save time and effort.
With the ability to summarize web pages everybody can become an instant speed
reader. With just a click of a button, WebSummarizer extracts
the most relevant keywords and sentences!
You instantly see what the web page is about. The key points are highlighted.
This brings your view into focus. You can view any part of the
text that contains your favorite keywords. You can rapidly take notes
and create mind maps complete with references to the sources.
You get more done in less time. You don’t have to struggle with
the text or train to become champion speed reader. And you don’t have to struggle
with information overload.
An effective summary is highly readable and focused on the most relevant information.
It provides a way to gain quick understanding.
Summarizing is important for strategic readers because it helps
rapidly grasp the meaning of text. Providing accurate and concise
presentation of the original text's most important points is at the heart of helpful
summaries.
The extracted keywords serve as a powerful checklist guiding your eyes
from one relevant point to another relevant point. In effect the long original
text is reduced without missing the main points and without distorting
the meaning and intentions of the original version. The ability to identify
the key topics and sentences and present them as Visual Summaries
is WebSummarizer's the most valuable capability.
WebSummarizer and WikiSummarizer filtering, summarizing and visualization
help users quickly locate the essential information they need on the Web. This is
achieved by generating highly effective summaries that allow you to evaluate content
by reducing the valuable time you spend on hunting for relevant
information.
The key benefits are:
- Ease of understanding - visual and structured preview of content
helps you determine relevance without reading the entire text
- Easy navigation - keywords and summary sentences are presented
in a convenient outline format
- Convenient downloading of Visual Summaries, Tree Views, Keyword
Clouds and mind maps
- Speedy information reviews - you can scan the keyword list, select keywords of interest
and keep in view only the related summaries
- Rapid note taking – the summarization gives you a head start on note taking by
spotlighting keywords and key sentences. You can select the passages and
keywords of most interest and download them as structured outlines and mind maps.
- Convenient referencing and citation sourcing by providing access
to the entire Wikipedia content organized as a knowledge base.
WebSummarizer and WikiSummarizer users can efficiently determine the relevance
of documents by reviewing the summaries rather than reading the documents in full.
Instead of having to read through every document entirely, users are presented with
clear summaries extracted verbatim from the original document.
WebSummarizer and WikiSummarizer extract the essential keywords and sentences from
documents using efficient statistical and linguistic methods. The summaries are
generated in a fraction of a second, providing a highly efficient means for users
to preview and assess text information.
Summarization not only facilitates skimming text for highlights,
it also provides the flexibility to pinpoint summaries based on topics of interest.
Keywords and summary sentences are presented in a convenient outline format. You
can scan the keyword list, select a few of interest and keep in view only the related
summaries by collapsing or expanding the summaries. This gives you the flexibility
to go inside a document and focusing only on the text of most interest to you.
As a blogger you want to publish the things that matter to you in a free-wheeling
authentic style and do it quickly. At the same time you want to provide well-researched
factual information with links to credible references that back-up your stories
and reporting. Such research is time consuming and could be exhausting. If you feel
that you spending too much time researching, examining and aggregating information
for your publishing you can benefit from using WebSummarizer.
Use WebSummarizer to quickly pinpoint relevant information to use in your blog
posts.
You use brainstorming when you need to find a solution for a specific problem by
gathering a list of ideas spontaneously generated and quickly explored for usefulness
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Use WebSummarizer to generate a helpful and long lists of ideas. Benefit from
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As an editor you want to keep up-to-date and be meticulously accurate as you review
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service of comparing, assessing and curating materials submitted for your comments
and for publishing. The editing process often is collaboration between the author
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Use WebSummarizer to quickly collect critical notes regarding your editorial
subject matter.
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Use WebSummarizer for technical briefings, research and collection of key facts
you can put to use in your daily practice.
As a business executive competitive intelligence and your company reputation is
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As a journalist you write about current affairs, popular topics and you need to
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Use WebSummarizer to quickly preview web search results and on line sources
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As a marketer you must read and write a large quantity of marketing materials. You
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WebSummarizer discovers keywords and key sentences - a great source of short,
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WebSummarizer saves time by delivering summaries - you avoid unnecessarily reading
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It's essential that you counter information overload with intelligent summarization.
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WebSummarizer finds and presents information in context - so you can focus on
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If you would like to produce Visual Summaries for any web pages and documents please explore WebSummarizer capabilities: