What are the available tools to summarize or simplify text?

Question

Is there any library, preferably in python but at least open source, that can summarize and or simplify natural-language text?

Answer 1

I'm not sure if there is currently any libraries that do this, as text summarization, or at least understandable text summarization isn't something that will be easily accomplished by a simple plug & play library.

Here are a few links that I managed to find regarding projects / resources that are related to text summarization to get you started:

• The Lemur Project
• Python Natural Language Toolkit
• O'Reilly's Book on Natural Language Processing in Python
• Google Resource on Natural Language Processing
• Tutorial : How to create a keyword summary of text in Python

Hope that helps :)