A List of Summarization Projects - Index

For a description of project each visit the full descriptions page.

Research

Sentence Extraction

• Surrey University: Summ-It applet
• Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden): SweSum
• University of Ottawa: The Text Summarization Project
• Columbia University: FociSum (1998)
• University of Southern California: ISI Summarist
• University of Michigan:
  • http://tangra.si.umich.edu/clair/lexrank/
  • http://www.summarization.com/mead/
  • http://www.newsinessence.com

Deep Understanding

• The Sheffield University TRESTLE
• Columbia University: SUMMONS (1996)

Hybrid Approaches (These combine extraction techniques with more traditional NLP techniques)

• Columbia University: MultiGen (1999), 
• Columbia University: Copy and Paste (1999).

• Datahammer by Glucose
• Text Analyst by Megaputer
• IBM summarization products
• Websumm by Mitre
• InText Search Engine
• InText by Island Soft
• British Telecom (ProSum) or NetSum
• inXight (LinguistX)
• Tetranet Software (Extractor)
• IBM Japan Summarization Project
• Copernic Summarizer
• Sinope Summarizer
• Pertinence Summarizer
• Microsoft (MS Word Auto Summarization)
• Apple
• Discontinued Summarisation Products
  • Webcompass by Quarterdeck