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Basic English for summarizing online - a comparison of 5 commonly used tools

In order to explore the performance of commonly-used summarizing tools available on the Internet, 5 such tools (smmry, resoomer, textcompactor, simplish & tools4noobs) were fed the following 3 scientific texts taken from the Internet  about the immune system: We are surrounded by millions of bacteria, viruses and other microbes that have the potential to enter our bodies and cause harm. The immune system is the body's defence against pathogens (disease-causing microbes). The immune system is made up of non-specialised defences such as skin and the acidic juice produced by your stomach. But it also has some highly specialised defences which give you immunity against (resistance to) particular pathogens. These defences are special white blood cells called lymphocytes. Other types of white blood cells play an important part in defending your body against infection. The lymphatic system is also part of the immune system. The lymphatic system is made up of a network of vessels
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A new online simplifying and summarizing service using Basic English

Probably one of the greatest challenges of our time is that of communications. At a technical level of telecommunications technology, it is one of the fastest growing industries. However, once physical communication is achieved between individuals, the next step is that of understanding. This is normally achieved using language. The English language is the predominant language for human interaction across the whole world today. Two thirds of the Internet traffic is in English. Most of the top universities, business transactions, entertainment, as well as scientific and technological publications use English. Many translating tools are available to translate between languages but they are in general of very low quality due to the complexities of correctly deriving the equivalence between words and phrases in two distinct natural languages. Translation is difficult for numerous reasons, including the lack of one-to-one word correspondences among languages, the existence
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