Exploiting cross-document relations for multi-document evolving summarization

Abstract. This paper presents a methodology for summarization from multiple documents which are about a specific topic. It is based on the specification and identification of the cross-document relations that oc-cur among textual elements within those documents. Our methodology involves the specification of the topic-specific entities, the messages con-veyed for the specific entities by certain textual elements and the speci-fication of the relations that can hold among these messages. The above resources are necessary for setting up a specific topic for our query-based summarization approach which uses these resources to identify the query-specific messages within the documents and the query-specific relations that connect these messages across documents.