MULTI-DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

A summary for a collection of related documents can be generated by extracti ng phrases (100) from the documents which include common focus elements. Phrase intersection analysis (120) is then performed on the extracted phrases (100) to generate a phrase intersection table, where identical or equivalent phras es are identified. Temporal processing (140) on the phrases in the phrase intersection table is performed to remove ambiguous time references and to sort the phrases in a temporal sequence. Sentence generation is then used to combine the phrases in the phrase intersection table into a coherent summary .