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October 22nd, 2010

Letter from Botswana: “Seeing my work from a different angle”

Here at Topicmarks, we love getting feedback from all over the world. This week, an anonymous user from Botswana writes us that they use Topicmarks effectively to challenge their own thinking:

“[Topicmarks] helps me appreciate my work from a different angle. Sometimes I tend to miss out what other people see as significant.”

“The primary benefit is rethinking the way in which I develop abstracts and summaries for my research essays.”

“I think that students, academics and researchers writing long essays would benefit most by using Topicmarks.”

Have you got anything to add? Do you use Topicmarks for the same, or for a completely different purpose?

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September 2nd, 2010

Teacher grades Topicmarks summary highest among students’

Jijin from China found that Topicmarks produces better summaries than any of his classmates.

“I was very happy to receive this summary. My teacher tells me that among all the students, my summary is the best one.”

It is great to see that Topicmarks is helping so many students in the classroom. If even teachers grade Topicmarks summaries better, why would anyone still bother to skim a document without it?

July 2nd, 2010

Over 90% happy with Topicmarks output

In a random blind test that Topicmarks conducted this week, 92% of users reported being happy with the summaries produced, while facts extracted scored almost the same, at 91%.

Only 2% resp. 4% judged the results to be bad, whereas 6% in both cases answered “don’t know” or “not applicable”. The results were based on a blind test where users were asked to rate a summary and fact list that Topicmarks had extracted.

Says Roland Siebelink, CEO: “This proves that Topicmarks condenses texts at level of incredible quality, not just from a technical point of view but in the eye of actual first-time users. Now that our quality is proven, we look forward to condensing many more texts for you during our beta phase and beyond.”