Open Text Summarizer

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Open Text Summarizer is a tool for automating summarization of non-fiction text.

It could be used to (partially) automate the process of creating abstracts or executive summaries.

Interesting idea.

I had worked on a project with roughly similar goals, but in it the automation was not for  summarizing the text,  but for related aspects.

- Vasudev Ram
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Expect is a powerful Unix tool for automation

Expect plays a crucial role in network management

The above link is via @Phaseit (Cameron Laird), to an oldish article of his on IBM developerWorks, but it is worth mentioning.

Expect is not new. It is an old Unix tool that lets you automate text-mode user interactions with  various tools such as telnet, passwd, ftp, rlogin, etc. It lets you invoke such a tool and then interact with it programmatically via "expecting" prompts from the tool and then sending it responses, to make it do things. Hence the name Expect. It supports regular expressions.

I had used the tool a little, much earlier, and was blown away by its power. I also was lucky to get to read a book on Expect by its original creator, Don Libes, a scientist with the NIST, a standards institution of the USA.

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One of the key things about Expect is that it uses Unix ptys to help perform its magic.

- Vasudev Ram
www.dancingbison.com