Salesforce develops artificial intelligence that writes summaries of text, potentially improving productivity in multiple fields

Briefing

June 12, 2017

Briefing	Summary Writing AI – Salesforce researchers developed artificial intelligence algorithm that writes summaries of documents, news articles, and e-mails Combination of Machine Learning Techniques – Uses combination of techniques, including supervised learning, where algorithm learns from good examples of summaries, and reinforcement learning, which provides positive rewards or feedback to system when it learns to write quality summaries on its own Applications – Include fields of medicine, scientific research, law, and business
Accelerator	Artificial Intelligence
Sector	Information Technology
Organization	Salesforce.com Inc.
Source	Paulus, R., "New AI breakthrough from Salesforce research boosts productivity with text summarization", Salesforce, https://www.salesforce.com/; Knight, W., "An algorithm summarizes lengthy text surprisingly well", MIT Technology Review, https://www.technologyreview.com/; Paulus, R., et. al., "Your TL;DR by an AI: A deep reinforced model for abstractive summarization", Salesforce, https://www.salesforce.com/; AcceleratingBiz analysis
Original Publication Date	May 11, 2017

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