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Congrats! It worked well on a few sample articles that I tried. Can you provide background on how the text is summarized?

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Thanks a lot. Sure, first we create a list of all the individual sentences in the article. Then, we use the TextRank algorithm to rank each of the text sentences. Finally, we select the top 5 most representative sentences from the article.

How do you create list of sentences from the article? How do you know where article starts and what is just navigation or fluff.

Firefox's reader's view is able to do that.

Check out their Github repo here - https://github.com/mozilla/readability

>You need at least one <p> tag around the text, you want to see in Reader View and at least 516 characters in 7 words inside the text.

Source - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30661650/how-does-firefo...

Hi, We used a python library called newspaper to do it.

how does this compare to newspaper's built-in summary feature? What is different?

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