Summary generation is an important process in those conditions where the user needs to obtain the key features of the document without having to go through the whole document itself. The summarization process is of basically two types: 1) Single document Summarization and, 2) Multiple Document Summarization. But here the microblogging environment is taken into account which have a restriction on the number of characters contained within a post. Therefore, single document summarizers are not applicable to this condition. There are many features along which the summarization of the microblog post can be done for example, post's topic, it's posting time, happening of the event, etc. This paper proposes a method that includes the temporal features of the microblog posts to develop an extractive summary of the event from each and every post, which will further increase the quality of the summary created as it includes all the key features in the summary.
A multiple-document summarization system with user interaction