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Approach: They propose a discriminative marginalized probabilistic method to generate a multi-document summary from a cluster of topic-related medical documents using token probability marginalization.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms the current state-of-the-art on a biomedical dataset for multi-document summarization.

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