Multi-document Text Summarization for Competitor Intelligence: A Methodology

With increasing adoption of Internet and various social media technologies by companies, the web has become a rich source of information about many aspects of organizational activities. Hence one input towards gathering competitive intelligence is to mine the text sources available on the web for any particular company and use the summarized version of that information for strategic decision making. This paper discusses a methodological approach and an architecture for such summarization system which can be used for gathering competitor intelligence by the companies.