Six AI Text Summarizers You Need to Know About 🤖
As a researcher, you have a lot of options when it comes to summarizing research articles or any type of text. There are many AI text summarizers available that can help you take a full research article and summarize it in a few sentences, pull out the important sentences, or even give you summaries based on specific components of the article. In this article, we will walk you through six different text summarizers and what they can be best used for.
Table of Contents
- Paper Digest
- TL;DR
- Scholarcy
- Resoomer
- Wordtune
- SideSpace CoPilot
- Elicit
Paper Digest
The first text summarizer we will discuss is Paper Digest. This is probably one of the simplest summarizers available. You can put in the URL or the DOI of a research article, and it will give you about a two to four sentence summary of that research article. This is not going to include any of the major results, but it will tell you what that research article is about. This is a good summarizer if you're just trying to get a little bit more information about a variety of different papers.
TL;DR
If you want a more thorough summarization of a paper, then TL;DR might be a better option. You have a few different options with TL;DR. You can get a quick summary or a detailed summary. You can even have it pull the main sentences from the paper or do an AI-human-like summarization of that paper. Because it has a few different options and is a little bit more thorough, it might be a really good alternative to Paper Digest for a paper that is really close to your main field and one that you really want to get the highlight points from but don't want to do a super deep dive or analysis of that paper.
Scholarcy
Scholarcy is a summarizer that has a free Google Chrome extension but is a paid tool. It gives you a summary based on each section of the paper, so you're going to get a summary for the results, introduction, and sometimes even a detailed abstract summary depending on the paper that you're analyzing. It also has a free Chrome extension, so when you go to the PDF of that paper, you can run Scholarcy on it to analyze that PDF and give you a summary of that there. In its paid version, you can actually save it to a library and do other things that you can't do with just the free Chrome extension.
Resoomer
If you don't really want an AI to summarize things but you really just want to see what are the major sentences that you need to read in a paper, then you want to read the exact article as the author wrote it but want all the fluff taken out of that article, then Resoomer might be the right choice for you. Resoomer really just finds the key sentences of an article and puts them together instead of generating a summary or having AI generate it for it. You can actually still download the full article but with all of the sentences that it thinks are key highlighted, or you can just download the highlighted sentences as well. This gives you a way to be able to read the author's exact words but not have to read the entire article.
Wordtune
Wordtune is a paid tool that is actually like a grammar writing editor, but it has Wordtune Read, which is a summarizer, and it even has a spotlight function that allows you to pull summaries for one specific keyword in the paper. You can find all the summaries related to a specific variable that you're studying or a specific molecule or protein or anything that you're studying. You can then ask it to look only for those specific things in it. Wordtune is a paid tool, and you get three free articles summarized per month. It has a Chrome extension, but you need to go into the web browser to actually be able to use that Spotlight tool instead of just trying to use it in the Chrome extension.
SideSpace CoPilot
If you want to summarize a single paper and ask specific questions, then SideSpace CoPilot might be the right choice for you. CoPilot is just a chatbot that you can pull up either in a Chrome extension on any PDF death in Chrome or in SideSpace's actual portal on their database of articles. You can ask it any question like what were the methods of this article, what were the results, what's a summary, all of these different things, and actually, it will give you an answer to your questions. This is a lot better than trying to feed chat to BT an article and ask it questions because chat should be too was not fine-tuned to do this for research articles where SideSpace CoPilot's AI is actually specifically made to give you answers to specific research articles.
Elicit
If you want to summarize multiple papers at once, then Elicit might be the right choice for you. This is not going to give you as near in-depth summaries, but you can ask it specific questions instead of just getting a summary. Elicit uses the GPT model to be able to find research articles and provide summaries in those research articles. You can even ask it specific questions like what was the intervention used, what were the methods, what type of data was used, any of these things to be able to extract out specific information from papers.
Conclusion
In conclusion, there are many AI text summarizers available that can help you summarize research articles or any type of text. We have discussed six different text summarizers and what they can be best used for. Depending on your needs, you can choose the right summarizer for you.
Highlights
- Six different text summarizers discussed
- Each summarizer has its own specific use case
- Paper Digest is the simplest summarizer
- TL;DR is a more thorough summarizer
- Scholarcy gives you a summary based on each section of the paper
- Resoomer finds the key sentences of an article and puts them together
- Wordtune has a spotlight function that allows you to pull summaries for one specific keyword in the paper
- SideSpace CoPilot is a chatbot that can answer specific questions about a single paper
- Elicit can summarize multiple papers at once and answer specific questions
FAQ
Q: Are these summarizers free to use?
A: Some of them are free, while others are paid tools.
Q: Can these summarizers be used for any type of text?
A: Yes, these summarizers can be used for any type of text.
Q: Can these summarizers replace reading the entire article?
A: No, these summarizers are meant to give you a quick overview of the article. It is still important to read the entire article for a complete understanding.
Q: Can these summarizers be used for academic research?
A: Yes, these summarizers are specifically designed for academic research.
