An automatic procedure aimed at extracting information from multiple texts written about the same topic, creating a summary report to help users quickly familiarize themselves with the information contained in a large cluster of documents.

• News articles reporting the same event
• Multiple reviews of a product
• Pages of search results in search engines
• Medical articles and studies
• Legal documents and case law
• Financial reports and market analysis

For instance, a researcher looking for information on a specific disease may have access to numerous medical articles and studies. Multi-document summarization can be used to automatically extract the key points from each document, creating a summary report that highlights the main findings and conclusions.

• Information Management