Closed Hucxley closed 5 years ago
Hucxley
commented
5 years ago Original summary: Sen. Warren's plan represents a new approach to trade — one that uses America’s leverage to boost American workers and raise the standard of living across the globe. The President has a lot of authority to remake trade policy herself. When she's elected, she intends to use it.
Hucxley
commented
5 years ago SUMMRY version: My plan is a new approach to trade - one that is different from both the Washington insider consensus that brought us decades of bad trade deals and from Donald Trump's haphazard and ultimately corporate-friendly approach.
Our current approach to negotiating trade agreements works great for the wealthy and the well-connected. I already have a plan to move the lead American trade negotiator - the Office of the United States Trade Representative - within my new Department of Economic Development. Unlike the current approach that lets our government ignore unfair trade practices, my administration will create automatic triggers to initiate investigations into unfair trade practices.
My plan represents a new approach to trade - one that uses America's leverage to boost American workers and raise the standard of living across the globe.
Hucxley
commented
5 years ago Also, we can just drop the link to each plan into the widget here: https://smmry.com/ to get one off summaries. I usually set it to 5 sentences, and then if the result is still too vague, I'll click a keyword to narrow it down (which isn't often). Also, turning on the heatmap setting shows the most important part in red, then fades to yellow for the least important parts. Here's a 4-sentence heatmap version of the Ultra-Millionaire tax from SUMMRY: https://smmry.com/https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/ultra-millionaire-tax#&SM_LENGTH=4&SM_HEAT_MAP
And here is the summary we currently use: She's proposing something brand new - a tax on the wealth of the richest Americans. Her Ultra-Millionaire Tax asks the richest 0.1% of Americans to pay their fair share, raising nearly $3 trillion that we can use to rebuild the middle class.
joegoldbeck
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5 years ago I actually don't think moving human-work (summarization, imo) to robots will serve us well here. (Details below)
The plans site now has little snippets at the top of each and every plan. I've been using them for the newer plans.
What do you think about using those across the board? The advantage is that whatever is there, the campaign decided was the best tagline to get further engagement.
For ex, ultramillionaire tax would become:
A two-cent tax on the great fortunes of more than $50 million can bring in nearly $3 trillion to rebuild America’s middle class. It's time for the rich to pay their fair share.
Trade would become:
For decades, big multinational corporations have been dictating America’s trade policy at the expense of everyone else. We need to use America’s enormous leverage to completely transform our approach to trade.
I think it's a great engagement prompt, better than the one we have now. Trade is still fairly vague, but I'm unconvinced that the summry version is a meaningful policy summary of what appears to be a fairly comprehensive plan.
In fact, the only details in the summry version are actually fairly inappropriate IMO:
< I don't think we should be bringing that guy into the summary
< This is actually a reference to an entirely different plan. Her plan for Economic Patriotism. Full snippet:
I already have a plan to move the lead American trade negotiator — the Office of the United States Trade Representative — within my new Department of Economic Development.
< This is also in the "I will strengthen our enforcement approach in other ways as well". It's not the heart of the plan here.
However, the full plan has the following Bolded sections
And then there's an "I will strengthen our enforcement approach in other ways as well", which is where summry gets all it's details from.
So, although summry does get some detail from the text, and it reads as a coherent summary. It's not really a good summary of the policy being proposed.
I think we should either:
a) Do them ourselves by hand, copying material from plan text where we can. recruit help of we need it. b) Use the engagement prompt at the top of each plan, and effectively let the campaign do it for us, even though that means shorter summaries
Hucxley
commented
5 years ago Closed in favor of methodology in PR #131
The summaries that are provided in the Reddit response come from the policy plans - either the opening or closing paragraphs. However, as in most writing, the writing here doesn't have text with much "value". The bot got this response after replying:
And I don't necessarily disagree. Another user correctly pointed out they should visit the link for more detail, and I did a word/character count of the actual plan, and it's a bit over 3,000 words and more than 21,500 characters.
There is a bot (autoTLDR) that uses SUMMRY to extract the most "valuable" sentences from articles. I think we should look at building summaries that extract actual content from the plans themselves, and stop assuming the opening and/or closing paragraphs have enough detail in them to satisfy the initial curiosity enough for people to click on the plan detail. It's basically using TF-IDF and some other stuff that SUMMRY hides.
https://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/31b9fm/faq_autotldr_bot/
Maybe we can just run each new plan through the SUMMRY API when we add the plan to our list, and add it at the time of entry. I've included the summary from our file and a 5 sentence SUMMRY version of the entire contents of the plan in replies below to demonstrate the difference.