[Mead] summarizing a reat time web page

[radev at umich.edu]

> In order to summarize a group of web pages in real time, is there a
> possibility to generate the summary for them without having to
> download

I don't think that you can do that. Or, perhaps you mean, without
writing them to disk? If that's what you mean, it should be possible
to run mead through a pipe.

> them. I mean generating summary on the fly. I saw the demo of mead where
> when given the url of the web page, the MEAD summarizer generates the
> summary for it. I guess NewsInessence also did real time summarization? Does
> it require downloading the webpage first and converting it into
> docsent

Yes, it converted the web page to docsent.

> format to feed into summariser module? In that case it would eb too hard to
> use it in the real time with web. NO?

It depends on the input size and on your time requirements.

> 
> any idea or suggestion?
> 
> Shanu