Subject: ANNOUNCE: HTML::Summary 0.013
From: Ave Wrigley <[email-masked]>
Date: 31 Mar 1999 13:23:45 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.modules

HTML::Summary is a module to extract a summary from an HTML page,
somewhat like that which might be included in a <META NAME=DESCRIPTION>
tag in the page head. The interface allows you to specify a maximum
length for the summary generated. It does so using the location
heuristic, which determines the value of a given sentence based on its
position and status within the document.  For example, headings, section
titles and opening paragraph sentences may be favoured over other
textual content.

The distribution contains a number of other modules that HTML::Summary
uses; these are bundled with HTML::Summary because I am still open to
suggestions on the interface / namespace of these modules for this early
release. The other modules are:

Text::Sentence - a module that splits text into constituent sentences.
Lingua::JA::Jcode - a perl5 wrapper around Kazumasa Utashiro's jcode.pl
library for detecting / converting Japanese mutlibyte character
encodings.
Lingua::JA::Jtruncate - a module for truncating Japanese text without
breaking multibyte character encodings.

The HTML::Summary distribution is available through CPAN:

ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/A/AW/AWRIGLEY/HTML-Summary-0.013.readme
ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/A/AW/AWRIGLEY/HTML-Summary-0.013.tar.gz

I would be grateful for any comments or suggestions on any of these
modules.

Ave.

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