Posts Tagged ‘Summary’

Key phrases are all about being informative!

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
 
A key phrase is defined as a meaningful and significant expression consisting of one or more words in a document. For example a keyword "information" is very general while phrases "information overload" and further "information overload syndrome" provide much better understanding.
 
Appropriately, key phrases serve as a highly condensed summary for a document, and they are used as contextual labels to supplement the title or they can be highlighted within the body of the document to facilitate users’ fast browsing and reading.
 
Key phrases are usually manually assigned by authors, especially for journals,  conference articles or back-of-the book indexes.  However, the vast majority of documents such as news, magazine articles, web pages do not provide key phrases because the manual effort of assigning key phrases is too expensive. Therefore it is useful to automatically extract key phrases from web pages to accompany the main content of the document.
  
Key phrases are all about being informative!
 
Informativeness tells us how well a phrase captures or illustrates the key ideas.  Practice shows that users prefer using key phrases in their searches because they are getting more accurate results.
 
Because informativeness depends on the background information - the context - the more context we have  the better is our understanding.
 
Context plays crucial role in rapid information analysis and synthesis. Software tools, such as Context Organizer,  that specialize in spotlighting the key phrases provide a convenient shorthand for researchers and writers.
 
Context Organizer immediately focuses on the essential information and helps with rapid reviews of large number of documents in short time. Quick reviews of the key phrases with relevant context provide practical clues as to the usefulness of the information.

 

 

 * This mind map was produced using Context Organizer for MindManager

Context Organizer is available in English, French, German and Spanish.
 
See Context Organizer with MindManager and with Google search.
 
Download Context Organizer for free today
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What makes an effective summary?

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

 

An effective summary is highly readable. It provides a way to gain quick understanding.

Summarizing is important for strategic readers because it helps rapidly grasp the meaning of text. Providing accurate and concise presentation of the original text’s most important points is at the heart of helpful summaries.

The extracted keywords serve as a powerful checklist guiding your eyes from one relevant point to another relevant point.

In effect the long original text is reduced without missing the main points and without distorting the meaning and intentions of the original version. The ability to identify the key topics and sentences is Context Organizer’s most essential capability.

To navigate the map just click on the " + " or "  - " markers to expand or contract the map.

Try Context Organizer summarization power and get the essential facts at a glance. Instantly.

Download and try out Context Organizer for free today.

 

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Treat any Web page like a Twitter summary

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

 

We live online where immediacy, brevity and speed are of great value when we interact with the World.  For example, what do we most love about Twitter?

The speed with which Twitter allows for a fast and easy sharing using no more than 140 characters to tell the entire story: beginning, middle and the end.
 
Brevity helps with getting to the point. Twitter is the ultimate summarization media. Tell your great idea and point me to some page. And if I’m interested in the detail I’ll go there and even tell other people about it. I will re-Twitt. What a caring treatment of the reader’s time!
 
Brevity promptly reveals the essence. So what can we do with the non-Twitter media where we are faced with long stories….much longer than the 140 characters on Twitter.

The answer is that we can summarize web pages and documents. And when the keywords and the key sentences pop up we instantly see the focus of the page. Very much like in the Twitter message.

See Brian Friedlander’s demo on how Context Organizer summarizes Google searches:

 

 Try Context Organizer summarization power and treat any Web page like a Twitter summary.

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A summary is worth a thousand of words

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
 
A summary is a shortened version of the original. The main purpose of such a simplification is to highlight the major points from the genuine (much longer) subject, e.g. a text, a film or an event. The aim is to help the audience get the gist in a short period of time. (Wikipedia)
 
The way we learn, remember and quickly recall has a strong relationship to the way we are able to process information without overloading our senses.
 
If our goal in understanding information is to quickly extract and convey meaning, then the use of summaries is essential. Summaries can be the key to understanding and reducing complex information to indispensable facts.
 
We can say that summaries are the bare models of thoughts and that summarized information represents the authorʼs best goals and intentions.

The act of instantly summarizing a web page can be an accelerator to quick understanding. By seeing the keywords in context, we, the readers, can quickly understand, connect and retain new information.

 
Summarization is relevant to all information workers, irrespective of their expertise.
 
When we read, we always have to parse the text. We read and re-read to extract the main statements. We underline important ideas and arguments according to the main statement. We work hard to assemble all the pertinent facts in logical order. And once all of this is done we then check if the summary reflects the original conclusions.
 
All of these hard and time consuming tasks can be greatly facilitated with the use of Context Organizer. With the click of a button, the essential keywords, sentences and context are revealed and highlighted. The keywords serve as a back-of-the-book index to the key statements and facts.
  
You may think about the Context Organizer summaries as an instant help in making sense by focusing on the key facts and conclusions only.
 
Context Organizer summaries allow busy professionals to save time.  It helps them to daily sift through copious amounts of information and rapidly review, compare and analyze information.
 
 
You can download and try out Context Organizer for free.
 
See the demos:
  • Instant Keywords and Summaries of Google Search resulst with 1 click:

Context Organizer Google Search Summarization Demo

  • Instant Keywords and Summaries of Web pages and documents with 1 click:

Context Organizer Web Pages demo  Demo

  • Turn web pages into MindManager maps with 1 click: 

Context Organizer for MindManager Demo

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