Challenge: Existing work on multi-document summarization has focused on generic summarizing of information present in each document set.
Approach: They propose a technique for generic and update summarization based on kernel two-sample testing.
Outcome: The proposed technique exceeds the current state-of-the-art on two datasets.

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Challenge: Existing methods for extracting multi-document news summarization neglect relative importance of documents.
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Challenge: Existing approaches to summarize documents are not extractive and require an abstractive approach.
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Challenge: Existing methods for text summarization have been investigated, but there are still gaps between them and human professionals.
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