"Summly’s patent pending technology has been evaluated by MIT Researchers and proven state-of-the-art. We utilise ontological detection and machine learning techniques in our summarisation processes.
Our core technology is language independent and produces great results out of the box for any language. In addition, specific optimisations have been made for English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German, Swedish, Mandarin, Russian, Japanese and Finnish."
It says that, but to what extend is it the truth? I can put that on my website too if my friend from MIT tells me something I did is state-of-the-art just from hearing me describe it (aka not digging into the code etc).
I'm not saying it isn't true, but from the results the app gives on non demo cases and from the discussion in this thread i'm not sure?
Our core technology is language independent and produces great results out of the box for any language. In addition, specific optimisations have been made for English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German, Swedish, Mandarin, Russian, Japanese and Finnish."
http://www.summly.com/en/technology.html