LEXISTEMS SensibleSummaries: Best Document Summaries

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Welcome to true document summarization. Meaning-based. State-of-the-Art.

SensibleSummaries is very easy to use and appreciate: just select, paste or drop a document, and in 1 click you get it back as a text, PDF or vocal summary.

Available as a software API or plug-and-play server appliance, SensibleSummaries brings summarization to any of your applications and runs on any infrastructure, including your own exclusively.

Because Sensiblesummaries is GAFAM-free, it can be trained on specific documents and vocabularies, keeps costs under control, secures data end-to-end and complies with GDPR and all other privacy regulations.

Business time is money.

Discover why adopting SensibleSummaries is the most sensible decision you can make today...

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SensibleSummaries' critical features

Functional
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  Summarizes any text or document
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  Text, PDF or vocal summaries: 1-click operation
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  Generative summarization or extractive key points
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  Results' length and bias adjustable to user or organization preferences
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  100% adaptable to corporate or industry vocabularies
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  Full data access control (enterprise directories, user profiles, custom categories)
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  Directly pluggable to any CMS, search engine or business application.
Technical
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  Available as a software or plug & play hardware solution (API / server appliance)
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  Installable on any infrastructure, including 100% on-premises
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  Optimized GPU requirements
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  Ethical architecture.
Eco-responsibility
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  Eco-responsible from design to production use
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  Optional carbon metrics returned with all summaries.
Availability and support
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  Available and supported worldwide through the SENSIBLE Alliance.
GAFAM-free and therefore
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  ...sensibly cost-effective via subscription or one-off pricings
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  ...fully secured and compliant with all Data Privacy regulations, end-to-end.

< 7 mg/s

(Time is a function of the document's length)

Average nominal CO2 emission per summary.
GPU required.
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SensibleSummaries solves information overload pain points

More and more to know in less and less time...

SensibleSummaries gives you the gist of any text or document -- in your preferred format.

Time

Problem: Your collaborators can't keep up with everything they have to know.

Solution: In 1 click or voice command, SensibleSummaries sums up any content. In text, PDF or vocal format. Read, download or listen. Your time, your preferences.

Costs

Problem: Your teams spend hours reading or searching information.

Solution: SensibleSummaries' abstracts or highlighted originals slash read times and reading reluctance. Staff productivity and performance is immediately increased.

Multilingualism

Problem: You have to read documents in languages other than your native one(s).

Solution: SensibleSummaries works in a variety of languages, and delivers easy-to-understand abstracts. Names and numbers are left untouched. The rest is as plain as ABC.

Integration

Problem: Your information workflow is based on search engines, CMSes and/or custom applications.

Solution: SensibleSummaries is easy to add to existing applications and document frameworks. A simple click or voice command and a sensible summary is ready.

More solved pain points...

Custom processing

Problem: You need additional processing along with summarization.

Solution: Like all LEXISTEMS solutions, SensibleSummaries can be augmented with custom plugins or black boxes. Name it, we'll connect it.

Scalability

Problem: All users in your organizations want it.

Solution: As a Docker-based API or server appliance(s), SensibleSummaries scales horizontally to as many users as desired.

Security

Problem: The documents you have to read are sensitive.

Solution: In API or server appliance mode, SensibleSummaries can be deployed 100% on premises or on your own infrastructure. Secured protocols protect network traffic end-to-end, with complete shielding from network access.

Compliance

Problem: GDPR, DPA, CCPA... Your organization is legally bound and compliance is your professional responsibility.

Solution: SensibleSummaries complies by design with privacy and other business-specific data regulations, current and future. Nothing to worry about on this front either.

Examples of SensibleSummaries use cases

Wikipedia Spanish

Context - Wikipedia is a valuable test case because of its variety in contents and styles, even though a factual bias is encouraged. This bias is precisely one of the main interests here: facts are what most summaries users want, and anyone can appreciate the pertinence of the result from reading the source. We present the Spanish version as Spanish is one of the lesser available language in summarization. French and English versions are available as well.

Documents type - This demo features a selection of articles on many topics - artistic, technical, historical, biographical - and of different lengths. As with other SensibleSummaries demos, the source area also accepts pasted text (any content, from Wikipedia or not).

France's supreme Court Decisions

Context - The Cour de Cassation is France's highest jurisdiction in matters of civil and criminal law. Its Decisions are often archived in digital format and that's what made this use case interesting: the many imperfections of the source texts (see the example capture, see the comments below) add a layer of complexity to the specific legal phrasing. References are often implied in reasoning or wording. General and case-specific remarks are of equal importance. Decisions' structures follow quite different received patterns... All these combined result in countless difficulties of understanding and risks of misinterpretation.

Documents type - The Court's Decisions are processed in raw electronic format: blocks of unstructured text (single database string-type records) with often deficient punctuation and casing due to initial OCR ingestion.

French Senate Reports

Context - France's Senators produce numerous Reports on the country's problems, trends and evolutions. As with every 100+ pages documents, summarization is a huge time saver even though, given the extreme variety of topics and forms in this use case, some Reports summaries are not yet perfect (they're just state-of-the-art). PDF summaries are generated on the backend side and directly readable / downloadable in frontend. When in text only, summaries are delivered in markdown format in order to preserve the documents' initial structure. In either format, they're available in about 30 seconds.

Documents type - In this use case, the Reports are stored in a dedicated repository to which a SensibleSummaries API is connected (contrary to most other use cases presented here, users cannot paste content). The Reports selector adapts to the repository's updates.

Daily Mail abstracts

Context - The Daily Mail is one of UK's most popular tabloids, covering topics from politics to entertainment, society, sports, celebs, etc., in styles not always "royal". This test case generates very short articles abstracts (text or vocal) that help catch up with the news in no time. On the same model, demos are available for US English, French, Spanish, Mexican Spanish, Colombian Spanish and Ecuadorian Spanish newspapers.

Documents type - This test case features widely available sources with and without HTML formatting. A hundred of random articles is provided for each newspaper, but any text can be pasted into the input area, including text copied directly from media websites.

French Press headlines

Context - Compared to the Daily Mail abstracts demo presented above, this test case focuses on producing headlines ("chapos" in journalistic French) instead of abstracts. A headline is a paragraph that separates an article's title from its body. It is meant to tease or entice the reader into reading further, not to summarize the whole article. The task is therefore distinctive from pure summarization, requiring a different level of understanding.

Documents type - We used published articles from a variety of French newspapers and trade magazines. The articles cover a wide variety of topics, lengths, styles and vocabularies. As with other SensibleSummaries demos, content can be pasted and "headlined" in one click, with text and/or vocal results.

Your SensibleSummaries ROI

All documents summarization solutions are not created equal.

Here is why SensibleSummaries is the surest choice ROI-wise:

Immediate

SensibleSummaries is ready to deploy, wherever and however you want. No complex setup. Time‑to‑summarization is immediate.

Customizable

SensibleSummaries' AI models can be adapted to organizations' specific documents, formats and vocabularies for even more precision.

Cost-effective

SensibleSummaries' pricing options match your budget with predictable, no hidden costs.

LEXISTEMS SensibleSummaries: guaranteed ROI on your summarization needs.

Elastic

SensibleSummaries scales along your user base and documents volume. Adopt it once and expand with it.

Secure

In API or server Appliance mode, SensibleSummaries runs entirely on your infrastructure through secured network protocols with shielding from public access.

Compliant

SensibleSummaries enforces all Data and Privacy regulations, current and future.

Benchmarks

ROUGE metrics^[1]

(Generative summaries)

	English	French	Spanish
Business	35.99 / 14.08 / 29.11	33.91 / 12.59 / 27.48	36.82 / 14.40 / 29.46
Press	48.12 / 25.7 / 45.2	45.20 / 21.56 / 41.88	44.78 / 22.01 / 41.70
Legal / Government	59.67 / 41.58 / 47.59	63.01 / 40.22 / 60.57	-

In percentages. These are metrics, not scores. For summarization, 0% and 100% are not considered worst and best.

ROUGE, or Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation, is a set of metrics for measuring technical aspects of automatic summaries.

In the table above, the first figure is the standardized ROUGE-1 value (F1 ratio). It represents the performance of capturing information in unigrams. Unigrams reflect the fluency of the summarized result.

The second figure is the standardized ROUGE-2 value (F1 ratio). It represents the conservation of bigrams (typically an entity and a specifier). This metric reflects the fidelity to the original wording for name chunks whose rephrasing would hinder the understanding of the summarized result.

The third figure is the standardized ROUGE-L, which represents the similarity between source and summary.

Please note that ROUGE values depend largely on the nature and average length of the source documents. That is why there's no concept of best (100%) or worst (0%) in ROUGE. In the table above, values also take into account LEXISTEMS' meaning-based approach, whereas ROUGE is known as a more syntactical than semantical instrument. We encourage you to compare them to the literature, keeping in mind the difference between extractive and generative (aka abstractive) summarization.

[1] November 2022 update.

Technical requirements

SensibleSummaries API

SensibleSummaries is a green code, highly optimized API. So are its technical requirements.

Deployment - For maximum deployment flexibility, the SensibleSummaries API is delivered as a fully-functional, self-sufficient Docker image with customizable volumes and shielding from network access. As such, SensibleSummaries fits right in any orchestration / production environment, and scales infinitely with state-of-the-art security.

Source documents - SensibleSummaries can be connected directly to any existing documents repository. Connection is read-only: documents are never modified nor duplicated.

Monitoring - SensibleSummaries supports all custom or standard monitoring platforms (Kibana, Graphana, Prometheus...) with async, non-blocking interactions. An optional dedicated monitoring platform is available, based on Kibana.

Hardware platforms - Servers hosting the SensibleSummaries API *must* be equipped with a compute GPU (typically an NVIDIA T4 or higher depending on the volume of concurrent summarization requests). Other required specifications are of commodity grade (e.g. Intel Xeon E / AMD Epyc 7F32+, 32 GB RAM).

SensibleSummaries Server Appliances

SensibleSummaries server appliances enclose a SensibleSummaries API within a dedicated server. They come ready to plug and serve summaries.

Custom configurations - SensibleSummaries server appliances are typically built to order according to customers' production requirements, especially user base, estimated concurrent queries and optional custom documents specificities.

Vendor agnostic - SensibleSummaries server appliances can be designed from any mix of OEM sources. We favor cost-effectiveness, scale provisioning and energy efficiency with recommended architectures, but any setup is possible.

Please consult us for details.