Ercan, GönençCan, Fazlı2016-02-082016-02-082009-04http://hdl.handle.net/11693/26745Conference name: ECIR '09 Proceedings of the 31th European Conference on IR Research on Advances in Information RetrievalDate of Conference: 06 - 09 April, 2009In this paper we present a generic, language independent multi-document summarization system forming extracts using the cover coefficient concept. Cover Coefficient-based Summarizer (CCS) uses similarity between sentences to determine representative sentences. Experiments indicate that CCS is an efficient algorithm that is able to generate quality summaries online. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009.EnglishAutomated text summarizationCover coefficient conceptMulti-document summarizationAutomated text summarizationEfficient algorithmAlgorithmsInformation servicesInformation retrievalConference Paper10.1007/978-3-642-00958-7_64