Dialogue summarization aims to generate a summary that indicates the key points of a given dialogue. In this work, we propose an end-to-end neural model for dialogue summarization with two novel modules, namely, the \emph{supporting utterance flow modeling module} and the \emph{fact regularization module}. The supporting utterance flow modeling helps to generate a coherent summary by smoothly shifting the focus from the former utterances to the later ones. The fact regularization encourages the generated summary to be factually consistent with the ground-truth summary during model training, which helps to improve the factual correctness of the generated summary in inference time. Furthermore, we also introduce a new benchmark dataset for dialogue summarization. Extensive experiments on both existing and newly-introduced datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our model.
@article{arxiv.2108.01268,
title = {Dialogue Summarization with Supporting Utterance Flow Modeling and Fact Regularization},
author = {Wang Chen and Piji Li and Hou Pong Chan and Irwin King},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.01268},
year = {2021}
}