Posts Tagged ‘topicmarks’
August 18th, 2010
Topicmarks help you separate between:
- the few texts you really need to read, and
- the many texts that you just need to review-and-file.
When determining the relevance of a text in your email in tray, for example, don’t skim it
yourself but just forward it to Topicmarks. Then review the
synopsis and text knode instead. This is <30 times faster.
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August 15th, 2010
Lots of new feedback on Topicmarks this week, and as the “back-to-school” season comes up, so students and parents are looking into Topicmarks as a learning tool.
JRT from Quezon City (Manila, Philippines) discovered Topicmarks through Google. “I feel I cannot find another website as good as Topicmarks […] It gave me freedom from worrying about my child’s school projects […] in English.”
In this world of global information, being able to digest English texts efficiently is a crucial skill for students of any age. We are delighted that so many are finding Topicmarks useful in their education!
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August 12th, 2010
Most information overload occurs in your email in-box. Who wants to read a looong email or a dense attachment when you have so much to do already?
Get a summary directly from your email inbox
With Topicmarks, you can now summarize a text right from your in-box. Just forward your email to your own special email address, and Topicmarks does the rest: analysing, storing and then sending you back the summary. All without manual uploading or even logging in. Get the gist in a few minutes, and retain all facts forever.
The first attachment or the body text
For now, Topicmarks summarizes the first attachment found in the emails it receives. If there is no attachment, it summarizes the body text of the email. If there is enough demand, we plan to have Topicmarks read multiple attachments in the near future.
Add a special address to your address book
Get started by finding out the secret email address that uniquely identifies your account. You find it in the “Profile” section. Store it in your address book and then forward any looong email or attachment to that address to get a summary. Summarizing an email becomes as easy as forwarding it to a colleague.
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July 2nd, 2010
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.”
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March 8th, 2010
Sometimes Topicmarks cannot read the file you tried to uploaded, and therefore cannot process it. This will cause you to be sent a short error message instead. This typically gives you a clue as to what is wrong with your document, e.g.
Name: myfilename.zip
URL: file://myfilename.zip
Processing error: Document format not supported.
This error occurs when uploading non-text documents such as images, videos, music, presentations, spreadsheets or ZIP files. Since Topicmarks works only with text files (.txt. .html, .doc, .pdf etc), you will need to try with a different file.
If you get “stuck” because the first text that you tried to upload produced an error, and you cannot upload a second one because Topicmarks says “your email address already exists”, then use the “sign in” button on the top right of the page to use our normal registration procedure instead. This should generate an account for you, after which you can try to your heart’s content.
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March 3rd, 2010
Topicmarks has trial users from many countries and cultures, even this early beta stage, and some of them are trying out Topicmarks with their native languages too.
Machine reading and natural language processing are very language-specific. Even related languages are so different in their subtle meanings that it is near impossible to write software that can deal with multiple languages at once.
This is why we designed Topicmarks to work properly only with English texts. And while this team of language geeks would never exclude adding other languages in the future, we will most likely only be able to finance other languages once the English version has taken off massively.
Nevertheless, we have had users report that Topicmarks produces impressive text knodes in German and Dutch. We speculate that the reason is the close relatedness of both languages to English. It was not our design, but already Topicmarks is smarter than we gave it credit for!
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March 1st, 2010
Topicmarks has just released its first public beta version. This is the first release of our machine reading service that is open for any Internet user to try. Registration is seamless: just upload a document for machine reading and your account will be created automatically.
Topicmarks attempts to help users cope with information overflow by identifying the gist of electronic documents before users have time to read them themselves. Our machine reading technology (patent pending) summarizes hundreds of pages in minutes, giving users a quick overview of the content and allowing them to dig deeper only into the topics they have a particular interest in.
The previous releases of Topicmarks were only available to select alpha testers. Now anybody can try Topicmarks for free: just upload or paste a text, click “try it now” and an account is created automatically and for free.
Try Topicmarks now
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