Locale String Summarizer

A lightweight TypeScript utility that intelligently summarizes text based on detected language/locale. Automatically detects the language and provides concise summaries or keyword extraction tailored to the specific locale.

Features

• Automatic Locale Detection: Detects Spanish, Russian, and English text automatically
• Smart Summarization: Extracts key sentences while preserving meaning
• Keyword Extraction: Get the most important keywords from your text
• Configurable Options: Customize sentence count and output format
• Zero Dependencies: Lightweight with no external dependencies
• TypeScript Support: Full type definitions included

Installation

npm install locale-string-summarizer

Usage

Basic Usage

import { summarizeText } from "locale-string-summarizer";

const text =
  "This is a very long sentence that contains multiple ideas and concepts. It should be summarized into a shorter version that captures the main points.";

// Basic summarization
const summary = summarizeText(text);
console.log(summary);
// Output: "This is a very long sentence that contains multiple ideas and concepts. It should be summarized into a shorter version that captures the main points."

Advanced Options

// Extract only keywords
const keywords = summarizeText(text, { keywordsOnly: true });
console.log(keywords);
// Output: "sentence, contains, multiple, ideas, concepts"

// Custom sentence count
const customSummary = summarizeText(text, { maxSentences: 1 });
console.log(customSummary);
// Output: "This is a very long sentence that contains multiple ideas and concepts."

Multi-language Support

// Spanish text
const spanishText =
  "Este es un texto muy largo en español que contiene múltiples ideas y conceptos.";
const spanishSummary = summarizeText(spanishText);
console.log(spanishSummary);

// Russian text
const russianText =
  "Это очень длинный текст на русском языке который должен быть сокращен.";
const russianSummary = summarizeText(russianText);
console.log(russianSummary);

API Reference

summarizeText(text: string, options?: SummarizerOptions): string

Summarizes the input text based on detected locale.

Parameters:

• text (string): The input text to summarize
• options (SummarizerOptions, optional): Configuration options

SummarizerOptions:

• maxSentences?: number - Maximum number of sentences to return (default: 2)
• keywordsOnly?: boolean - If true, returns only keywords instead of sentences (default: false)

Returns: string - The summarized text or keywords

Supported Languages

• English (en) - Default fallback
• Spanish (es) - Detected by accented characters (á, é, í, ó, ú, ñ, ü)
• Russian (ru) - Detected by Cyrillic characters

License

MIT © Harsh Srivastava

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.