We investigate the problem of reader-aware multi-document summarization (RA-MDS) and introduce a new dataset for this problem. To tackle RA-MDS, we extend a variational auto-encodes (VAEs) based MDS framework by jointly considering news documents and reader comments. To conduct evaluation for summarization performance, we prepare a new dataset. We describe the methods for data collection, aspect annotation, and summary writing as well as scrutinizing by experts. Experimental results show that reader comments can improve the summarization performance, which also demonstrates the usefulness of the proposed dataset. The annotated dataset for RA-MDS is available online.
@article{arxiv.1708.01065,
title = {Reader-Aware Multi-Document Summarization: An Enhanced Model and The First Dataset},
author = {Piji Li and Lidong Bing and Wai Lam},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.01065},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
EMNLP 2017 Workshop on New Frontiers in Summarization; Dataset: http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~textmine/dataset/ra-mds/