This procedure has been observed in human summarization (Jing and McKeown, 2000) and has been shown to be a valuable component of automated summarization systems (Barzilay and McKeown, 2005).
research in sentence fusion has long been hampered by the absence of datasets for the task, and the difficulty of generating one has cast doubt on the viability of automated fusion (Daumé III and Marcu, 2004).