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We develop the theory and practice of an approach to modelling and probabilistic inference in causal networks that is suitable when application-specific or analysis-specific constraints should inform such inference or when little or no data…

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Bayesian optimization is a sample-efficient approach to global optimization that relies on theoretically motivated value heuristics (acquisition functions) to guide its search process. Fully maximizing acquisition functions produces the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-04 James T. Wilson , Frank Hutter , Marc Peter Deisenroth

In this work, we aim at developing an extractive summarizer in the multi-document setting. We implement a rank based sentence selection using continuous vector representations along with key-phrases. Furthermore, we propose a model to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Mir Tafseer Nayeem , Yllias Chali

Legal professionals frequently encounter long legal judgments that hold critical insights for their work. While recent advances have led to automated summarization solutions for legal documents, they typically provide generic summaries,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 T. Y. S. S Santosh , Mahmoud Aly , Matthias Grabmair

We propose a summarization approach for scientific articles which takes advantage of citation-context and the document discourse model. While citations have been previously used in generating scientific summaries, they lack the related…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Arman Cohan , Nazli Goharian

When summarizing a collection of views, arguments or opinions on some topic, it is often desirable not only to extract the most salient points, but also to quantify their prevalence. Work on multi-document summarization has traditionally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Roy Bar-Haim , Yoav Kantor , Lilach Eden , Roni Friedman , Dan Lahav , Noam Slonim

In this work, we develop a prompting approach for incremental summarization of task videos. We develop a sample-efficient few-shot approach for extracting semantic concepts as an intermediate step. We leverage an existing model for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Sumanta Bhattacharyya , Ramesh Manuvinakurike , Sahisnu Mazumder , Saurav Sahay

Despite enormous progress in object detection and classification, the problem of incorporating expected contextual relationships among object instances into modern recognition systems remains a key challenge. In this work we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Ehsan Jahangiri , Erdem Yoruk , Rene Vidal , Laurent Younes , Donald Geman

The ubiquitous availability of computing devices and the widespread use of the internet have generated a large amount of data continuously. Therefore, the amount of available information on any given topic is far beyond humans' processing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Samira Ghodratnama

Large-scale datasets are widely used to perform summarization tasks, but they may not include queries alongside documents and summaries. In the search for suitable datasets for Query-Focused Summarization (QFS), we identify two research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yllias Chali , Deen Abdullah

Recent research has shown that mixed-initiative conversational search, based on the interaction between users and computers to clarify and improve a query, provides enormous advantages. Nonetheless, incorporating additional information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Oleg Borisov , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Fabio Crestani

Speech summarization has become an essential tool for efficiently managing and accessing the growing volume of spoken and audiovisual content. However, despite its increasing importance, speech summarization remains loosely defined. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Fabian Retkowski , Maike Züfle , Andreas Sudmann , Dinah Pfau , Shinji Watanabe , Jan Niehues , Alexander Waibel

Content-based recommendation systems play a crucial role in delivering personalized content to users in the digital world. In this work, we introduce EmbSum, a novel framework that enables offline pre-computations of users and candidate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Chiyu Zhang , Yifei Sun , Minghao Wu , Jun Chen , Jie Lei , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed , Rong Jin , Angli Liu , Ji Zhu , Sem Park , Ning Yao , Bo Long

Line search is a fundamental part of iterative optimization methods for unconstrained and bound-constrained optimization problems to determine suitable step lengths that provide sufficient improvement in each iteration. Traditional line…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Robin Labryga , Tomislav Prusina , Sören Laue

Automatic text summarization tools have a great impact on many fields, such as medicine, law, and scientific research in general. As information overload increases, automatic summaries allow handling the growing volume of documents, usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Augusto Villa-Monte , Laura Lanzarini , Aurelio F. Bariviera , José A. Olivas

Summaries of medical text shall be faithful by being consistent and factual with source inputs, which is an important but understudied topic for safety and efficiency in healthcare. In this paper, we investigate and improve faithfulness in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Nan Zhang , Yusen Zhang , Wu Guo , Prasenjit Mitra , Rui Zhang

For many NLP applications, such as question answering and summarisation, the goal is to select the best solution from a large space of candidates to meet a particular user's needs. To address the lack of user-specific training data, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Edwin Simpson , Yang Gao , Iryna Gurevych

Abstractive summarization has been studied using neural sequence transduction methods with datasets of large, paired document-summary examples. However, such datasets are rare and the models trained from them do not generalize to other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Eric Chu , Peter J. Liu

Video summarization creates an abridged version (i.e., a summary) that provides a quick overview of the video while retaining pertinent information. In this work, we focus on summarizing instructional videos and propose a method for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Apoorva Beedu , Irfan Essa

Lay summarization aims to generate lay summaries of scientific papers automatically. It is an essential task that can increase the relevance of science for all of society. In this paper, we build a lay summary generation system based on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Tiezheng Yu , Dan Su , Wenliang Dai , Pascale Fung