The document discusses automatic text summarization of news articles. It proposes a method that focuses on identifying the most important parts of the text and generating coherent summaries using lexical chains, without full linguistic analysis. Key steps include constructing lexical chains based on semantically related nouns, resolving pronouns to their referent nouns, scoring sentences based on lexical chain coverage, and selecting highly scored sentences to include in the summary. The method aims to provide an optimized and efficient algorithm for generating text outlines using lexical chains.