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Here's a summarization I'd like (and would pay for[0]): chats. I mean IRC logs, Slack & Telegram groupchat logs, etc. Between work and local Hackerspace, people produce so much text on IM that I can't really keep up with it. I'd love a solution that I could feed such chat logs, and get back e.g. list of topics covered.

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[0] - as long as it wasn't a cloud SaaS where I have to share my data with vendor's machines.

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Totally agree, I tried to prototype this but the datasets to train ML summarizations from are pretty much all from news articles. Trying to take that model and summaries chats resulted in gibberish for me. The salient take-aways from Chats and other non-factual / loosely structured text seems so dependent on what you care about, summarisation is difficult.

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