| Challenge: | Existing methods for summarizing textual content are often ignored . relationshipal questions are ubiquitous and varied. |
| Approach: | They propose a method which generates a natural language summary of the relationship between two lexical items in a corpus without reference to a knowledge base. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method generates a natural language summary of the relationship between two lexical items in a corpus without reference to a knowledge base. |
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