May I present: kompressr

[alexr_rwx]

kompressr: make text shorter harnessing the power of acronyms (MTSHTPOA)

Try it out, let me know what you think and if it breaks :) Should be useful for making long papers shorter, by automatically extracting acronyms and using them wherever possible.

Public beta!^tm

(running on App Engine, with NLTK!)

Comments

[chrisamaphone]

cool! i tried it on my recent LJ posts to get an idea for what it did, and then learned a bunch about my own writing patterns. :) some of the acronyms were pretty awkward; at first i thought because they include common short words but maybe more because they don't fall on natural phrase boundaries. stuff like "dinner at", "talking about", "and the", "i had a"...

[lindseykuper]

and then learned a bunch about my own writing patterns.

Unintended benefit! That's awesome.

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

Thanks thanks!

Not breaking along phrase boundaries is both easier to implement, and what I was going for (ie, kind of senseless, but following a pattern that's intuitively clear).

The alternative would require some light parsing -- maybe chunking for noun phrases...