Article Summary Lists Using Relevance-Scored Sentence Extraction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face difficulty in quickly understanding the significance of articles due to the time-consuming nature of consuming and finding main points within them.

Innovation Solution

An article is analyzed to identify phrases, assign relevance scores, and select sentences based on these scores to generate a summary list that highlights key points, ensuring sentences meet specific conditions for clarity and length.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If users consume the full article to understand its significance, then understanding completeness is improved, but time consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveunderstanding completenessVSAvoidtime consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts the most important sentences from the full article to create a summary list. By identifying and extracting key sentences based on phrase relevance scores, the system provides users with essential information without requiring them to read the entire article, thus reducing time consumption while maintaining understanding completeness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary analysis of the article by identifying phrases, calculating relevance scores, and selecting key sentences before the user reads the article. This preliminary processing creates a ready-made summary that users can quickly review to grasp the main points without investing time in reading the full content.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If a summary list is generated to reduce reading time, then time efficiency is improved, but information completeness may deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereading efficiencyVSAvoidinformation completeness
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system replaces the manual mechanical process of reading and comprehending entire articles with an automated computational system. The system uses algorithms to identify phrases, calculate relevance scores, and automatically select key sentences, substituting human cognitive effort with machine processing to maintain information quality while improving reading efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameter of information presentation by transforming the full article into a condensed summary list format. By adjusting the selection criteria based on phrase relevance scores and sentence importance metrics, the system optimizes the balance between summary length and information completeness, allowing users to grasp main points efficiently.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Productivity

If automated sentence selection is used to create summaries, then productivity is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesummary generation speedVSAvoidprocessing system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the article processing task into distinct stages: phrase identification, relevance score calculation, sentence selection, and summary generation. By dividing the complex process into manageable segments, each handling a specific aspect of analysis, the system achieves high productivity through automated processing while organizing complexity into modular, manageable components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS12430395B2Generation and presentation of summary list based upon article
Publication Date: 2025.09.30 YAHOO ASSETS LLC
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AI summary

One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for generating summary lists based upon articles are presented. In an example, a summarizing set of sentences of an article may be identified. The summarizing set of sentences may be analyzed to identify one or more first sentences of the summarizing set of sentences that meet a set of conditions and/or identify one or more second sentences of the summarizing set of sentences that do not meet the set of conditions. A summary list summarizing the article may be generated based upon the one or more first sentences.