April 22, 2002

News summarising services

THE NET, with its hundreds of news sites, is a rich browsing source for obtaining the latest news articles/analysis. This week NetSpeak scans a couple of services that automatically collect and summarise news stories from multiple Net sources.

NewsInEssence (NIE): This is a multi-source summarisation service developed by a few researchers at the University of Michigan — http://www.umich.edu/clair The service collects and summarises news on a specified topic available at different online news sites. The service automatically provides all the articles on a subject, along with a summary. This way it facilitates access multiple articles on a subject.