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Trial 3 - The AutoSummarizer


Inaugural Address of William Jefferson Clinton, 42nd President of the United States
The U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC, January 20, 1993:

America.

change to preserve America's ideals: life, liberty, the pursuit of
people. time. America. The world economy, the world
environment, the world Aids crisis, the world arms race--they
more than celebrate America.

Plainly there are endless layers to these encoded messages. Which people, I want to know, is the President pursuing? And are they female?

Again studying the original, which now seems a bland and empty document disguising a hidden treasure, I belatedly perceive the reason why the AutoSummarizer has been returning all these disjointed sentences. The cut and paste job I did has preserved the line endings on the White House Web page as paragraph returns in the Word document. So the version of the document I've been working with is broken up into a badly formatted mess of entrails for the AutoSummarizer to interpret.

Strangely, I feel a compulsion to be fair to this infernal software. I click on Format and then AutoFormat. The document blinks once and reappears in proper Word paragraphs. Now when I AutoSummarize, this is the result:


Trial 3


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