39. A processing system configured to create an abstract for a document, the processing system comprising: a memory device configured to store the document; a processing device; a user input; the processing device configured to: receive at least a verbosity score, a threshold score, and a sequence threshold score from the user input; access the memory to read at least a sequence of words from the document; extract the sequence of words from the document based upon a determination that the sequence includes a number of words greater than or equal to the verbosity score and a number of words having a score greater than or equal to the threshold score is greater than or equal to the sequence threshold score; search the abstract to determine whether the sequence of words is included in the abstract; and add the sequence of words to the abstract in response to determining that the sequence was not included in the abstract.
43. The processing system of claim 39 wherein the abstract is language independent.