Summarising books by verbs

[mrx23dot]

Not really an issue, just a question.

So I'm summarising books by paragraphs, and I was thinking to get the main plot 'happening' it would be beneficial to prioratise sentences with verbs.

I can collect every verb for a given language. As I see only Edmundson is capable taking hint words. Not sure what stop-words are, documentation doesn't explain them.

Has anyone tried similar thing?

[mrx23dot]

My other idea was to take the book 'plot' from wikipedia, mark everything in it important, and use that as hint during extraction.

[miso-belica]

Hi, if you can collect verbs from the text it should be as you said. Edmundson is the method for you. Use those words as hints for the method.

Regarding the stop-words, it's not that hard to Google them 😏

I am curious what you come with and about the results. Don't forget to let us all know 🙂

[miso-belica]

@mrx23dot did my suggestion help a bit?

[mrx23dot]

Sorry for the delay, actually I've been using LSA every since, works great on paragraphs, the key is to set the correct number of sentences, e.g not hard code to 3 but set it to dynamic count/4.

It's barely noticeable in books, but makes reading so much faster. Thanks!