Nicolas

This page offers the official Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License release of Nicolas - a java coreference-based summarization tool, which creation was cofunded by the European Union from resources of the European Social Fund -- Project PO KL „Information technologies: Research and their interdisciplinary applications”. By downloading the package you accept the conditions of that licence.

Contact person: Mateusz Kopeć
Authors: Mateusz Kopeć
License: CC BY v.3

Downloads

You may check out the source code from git repository.

Training/Evaluation resources

• Preprocessed PSC corpus

• Automatic summary sentences in preprocessed PSC corpus (for training zero subject model)

• Zero subject injector training corpus

• Summaries by competing systems

Demo

To see Nicolas in action on your own text, you have 3 options: try it online in Multiservice, use command-line Java application or install Chrome plugin for summarizing onet.pl.

Command-line application

Download the application from here: Nicolas command-line application (jar)

Then, execute java -jar nicolas-cli.jar --help to see command line options.

Online demo

Multiservice offers an online demo of Nicolas. You need to select a chain of preprocessing actions before adding Nicolas as the last component. For example, try predefined chain of: Concraft, Spejd, Nerf, MentionDetector, Bartek, NicolasSummarizer. After processing is finished, select the "Summary" tab.

Chrome plugin

Plugin allows to summarize articles at main page of onet.pl news portal by right-clicking them at the main page.

Download it here: OnetSummarizer.

You may also want to see Polish Summaries Corpus and Polish Coreference Tools.