Portfolio Project – Intellexer Summarizer

Intellexer Document Summarizer is a desktop application which allows the user to make a summary of an electronic document or a web page.

Challenge

Summarizer is intended as a tool that can get the most essential ideas out of a lengthy text, thus saving the time and effort spent on processing information. The ideas are presented in the form of a summary supplemented with a list of primary concepts.

Solution highlights

Summarizer utilizes the latest semantic technology: Intellexer Natural Language Processing platform. Intellexer Summarizer is based on linguistic, statistical and heuristic algorithms that allow producing a precise and informative summary of a text. The type and length of the summary can be customized.

Competitive advantages

• All text file formats support
• Variety of summary types
• Hierarchic concept tree
• History tool at hand
• MS application integration
• Choice of version (Lite, Standard, Pro)

Project utilizes

Total project development time:	9 months (SDK: 4 years)
Lines of code:	C++ ~50,000 (SDK: ~200,000, linguistic dictionaries and rules: ~100 mb)
Tools:	MS Visual Studio, MS Project, MS Office, MS Visual SourceSafe
Technologies:	Intellexer SDK, C++, STL, Boost, MFC, Perl, cygwin, finite-state methods, statistics, natural language processing