Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for processing, through an encoder of an attention-reconstruction-based summarization (ARS) platform, the primary document to provide a contextual vector, identifying, using reconstruction regularizers of the ARS platform, information that is absent from the one or more linking documents, and is present in the primary document at least partially based on the contextual vector, for each word of the primary document, providing, using an attention mechanism of the ARS platform, a word salience score at least partially based on the information that is absent from the one or more linking documents, for each sentence in the primary document, determining a sentence salience score based on word salience scores of words within the sentence, ranking sentences of the primary document based on sentence salience scores, and selecting two or more sentences of the primary document based on ranking to provide a summary of the primary document.