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Multi-Document Summarization

Multi-document summarization (MDS) is a natural-language-processing task that condenses a cluster of related documents into a single comprehensive, coherent, and non-redundant summary. Formally described by Erkan and Radev (2004) through the LexRank algorithm, MDS is used in news cluster analysis, systematic literature reviews, and research synthesis to give readers a unified view of information spread across multiple sources.

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Multi-Document Summarization
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / text-mining
  • Erkan, G. & Radev, D.R. (2004). LexRank: Graph-Based Lexical Centrality as Salience in Text Summarization. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 22, 457-479. · URL
  • Liu, P.J. et al. (2018). Generating Wikipedia by Summarizing Long Sequences. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). · URL
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