Managing summaries for mobile devices

Mobile devices have significantly changed the way users access the information available on Internet. These devices allow instant access anytime and anywhere, but they have a number of important limitations with respect to personal computers. The limited screen space and, sometimes, the limited capacity to receive the information, make the selection of information even more important. Automatic summary generation from multi-document summarization is an interesting alternative which is the subject of this paper. Therefore, in this article is presented and evaluated a model of automatic summarization with an information retrieval system based on passages.