I have written a text summarization program here
This is a naive way of summarizing large blocks of text. It is based on the elementary school idea that the main idea of a text can be found in the first paragraph. So given a long text, it will output the first sentence of each paragraph as the summary.
Remember Stacy, graduated 07 or thereabouts? Her dissertation was related to this topic.
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1285155
This is a very active area of research. I hope to put some more stuff regarding this stuff up soon, but thanks for the info.
This is like data mining too much verbiage to get to the focal point of what is being expressed. Great idea. A definite must-have for discussions with politicians.