Interactive, Text‐Based Summarization of Multiple Documents

Abstract

This paper describes a system for the summarization of multiple text‐only news‐like documents. We address two main issues: clustering of documents in order to find the main topics that should be mentioned in the multidocument summary and organization of the information in order to create a summary that presents the information in a logical way and is easy to read. The system is based on a single‐document summarizer that uses text‐extraction.