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  <Title>A Language Independent Algorithm for Single and Multiple Document Summarization</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper describes a method for language independent extractive summarization that relies on iterative graph-based ranking algorithms. Through evaluations performed on a single-document summarization task for English and Portuguese, we show that the method performs equally well regardless of the language. Moreover, we show how a meta-summarizer relying on a layered application of techniques for single-document summarization can be turned into an effective method for multi-document summarization. null</Paragraph>
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