This paper presented a comparative analysis of three widespread multi-lingual summarisation approaches in order to determine which one would be more suitable to adopt when tackling this task.
we studied: i) a languageindependent approach using the term frequency technique; ii) a language-specific approach, relying on specific linguistic resources for each of the target language (named entities recognisers and semantic resources); and finally, iii) a monolingual text summariser for English, whose output was then inputted to a machine translation system in order to generate summaries in the remaining languages.