SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DOCUMENT COLLECTION, GROUPING AND SUMMARIZATION

摘要

A system for generating a summary of a plurality of documents and presenting the summary information to a user is provided which includes a computer readable document collection containing a plurality of related documents stored in electronic form. Documents can be pre-processed to group documents into document clusters. The document clusters can also be assigned to predetermined document categories for presentation to a user. A number of multiple document summarization engines are provided which generate summarie s for specific classes of multiple documents clusters. A summarizer router (11 5) is employed to determining a relationship of the documents in a cluster and select one of the document summarization engines for use in generating a summary of the cluster. A single event engine (120) is provided to generate summaries of documents which are closely related temporally and to a specifi c event. A dissimilarity engine for multiple document summary generation is provided which generates summaries of document clusters having documents wit h varying degrees of relatedness. A user interface (135) is provided to displa y categories, cluster titles, summaries, related images.