edu.northwestern.at.utils.corpuslinguistics.textsummarizer
Class SimpleTextSummarizer

java.lang.Object
  edu.northwestern.at.utils.IsCloseableObject
      edu.northwestern.at.utils.corpuslinguistics.textsummarizer.AbstractTextSummarizer
          edu.northwestern.at.utils.corpuslinguistics.textsummarizer.SimpleTextSummarizer

All Implemented Interfaces:

TextSummarizer, IsCloseable, UsesLogger

Direct Known Subclasses:

DefaultTextSummarizer

public class SimpleTextSummarizer
extends AbstractTextSummarizer
implements TextSummarizer

SimpleTextSummarizer: Simple text summarizer.

This summarizer produces a summary by finding the (up to) 100 most commonly used words in a text (not including stop words) and outputting the first sentence containing each common word. This works adequately for news articles or blog posting, but rather badly for literature.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class edu.northwestern.at.utils.corpuslinguistics.textsummarizer.AbstractTextSummarizer

logger

Constructor Summary

SimpleTextSummarizer()
Create the default summarizer.

Method Summary

<T extends java.lang.Comparable> java.util.List<java.lang.Integer>

summarize(java.util.List<java.util.List<T>> sentences, int summarySentences) Summarize text.

Methods inherited from class edu.northwestern.at.utils.corpuslinguistics.textsummarizer.AbstractTextSummarizer

getLogger, setLogger, summarize

Methods inherited from class edu.northwestern.at.utils.IsCloseableObject

close

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface edu.northwestern.at.utils.corpuslinguistics.textsummarizer.TextSummarizer

summarize

Methods inherited from interface edu.northwestern.at.utils.IsCloseable

close

Constructor Detail

SimpleTextSummarizer

public SimpleTextSummarizer()

Create the default summarizer.

Method Detail

summarize

public <T extends java.lang.Comparable> java.util.List<java.lang.Integer> summarize(java.util.List<java.util.List<T>> sentences,
                                                                                    int summarySentences)

Summarize text.

Specified by:

summarize in interface TextSummarizer

Specified by:

summarize in class AbstractTextSummarizer

Parameters:

sentences - Tokenized sentences to summarize.

summarySentences - Maximum number of sentences to return in the summary.

Returns:

Summary of the input text.