Challenge: Using RST, extractive summarisation involves using select phrases and sentences as a summary, which still remains a strong method for producing summaries despite its simple nature.
Approach: They propose to use RST-based features to analyse the connection between summary sentences and several RST features and transfer these insights to various automated summarisation models.
Outcome: The proposed models are based on the best features proposed over the last 20+ years and incorporate the best ones into the proposed models.

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