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