Automatic discovery and presentation of topic summaries related to a selection of text

A computer program product for processing text to generate a topic summary, the computer program product comprising:

• a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied therewith, the computer-readable program code comprising:
• computer-readable program code configured to receive a selected portion of text in a document;
• computer-readable program code configured to determine at least a first entity referenced in the selected portion;
• computer-readable program code configured to evaluate a remaining portion of text excluding the selected portion in the document and one or more other documents accessible via links in the document to identify text content relating to and excluding the first entity in the document and the one or more other documents, wherein the identified text content comprises second entities within a distance of the first entity in the document and the one or more other documents,
• computer-readable program code configured to generate, from the identified text content relating to and excluding the first entity, a summary of the first entity, wherein the summary of the first entity comprises a plurality of truncated phrases generated from the identified text content selected based, at least in part, on a history of previous selections of text, and,
• computer-readable program code configured to display the summary on a display screen by generating a popup window including the summary.