One thing to look at is iVia: <http://ivia.ucr.edu/>. It's not a summarizer
per se, but the PhraseRate part of it will extract "key phrases" from a set
of documents.
Roy


On 1/27/07 7:23 AM, "Eric Lease Morgan" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Do y'all know of any open source text summarizers?
>
> I'm lazy, and I want to generate a summary of plain text documents. I
> can use ots (open text summarizer) to do this work, but I would like
> to compare and contrast it with other possibilities.
>
> Do you have any suggestions?
>
> --
> Eric Lease Morgan