English
Related papers

Related papers: Revisiting Summarization Evaluation for Scientific…

200 papers

We present BLANC, a new approach to the automatic estimation of document summary quality. Our goal is to measure the functional performance of a summary with an objective, reproducible, and fully automated method. Our approach achieves this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Oleg Vasilyev , Vedant Dharnidharka , John Bohannon

The emergence of powerful LLMs has led to a paradigm shift in abstractive summarization of spoken documents. The properties that make LLMs so valuable for this task -- creativity, ability to produce fluent speech, and ability to abstract…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Margaret Kroll , Kelsey Kraus

The automatic scoring of summaries is important as it guides the development of summarizers. Scoring is also complex, as it involves multiple aspects such as fluency, grammar, and even textual entailment with the source text. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Wenchuan Mu , Kwan Hui Lim

Automated evaluation is crucial for streamlining text summarization benchmarking and model development, given the costly and time-consuming nature of human evaluation. Traditional methods like ROUGE do not correlate well with human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Hwanjun Song , Hang Su , Igor Shalyminov , Jason Cai , Saab Mansour

A commonly observed problem with the state-of-the art abstractive summarization models is that the generated summaries can be factually inconsistent with the input documents. The fact that automatic summarization may produce…

Question answering-based summarization evaluation metrics must automatically determine whether the QA model's prediction is correct or not, a task known as answer verification. In this work, we benchmark the lexical answer verification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Daniel Deutsch , Dan Roth

Our task is to generate an effective summary for a given document with specific realtime requirements. We use the softplus function to enhance keyword rankings to favor important sentences, based on which we present a number of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Liqun Shao , Hao Zhang , Ming Jia , Jie Wang

Commonly adopted metrics for extractive summarization focus on lexical overlap at the token level. In this paper, we present a facet-aware evaluation setup for better assessment of the information coverage in extracted summaries.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Yuning Mao , Liyuan Liu , Qi Zhu , Xiang Ren , Jiawei Han

In this paper, we proposed a multi-document summarization system using semantic role labeling (SRL) and semantic graph for Indonesian news articles. In order to improve existing summarizer, our system modified summarizer that employed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Yuly Haruka Berliana Gunawan , Masayu Leylia Khodra

Source code summaries are important for program comprehension and maintenance. However, there are plenty of programs with missing, outdated, or mismatched summaries. Recently, deep learning techniques have been exploited to automatically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Ensheng Shi , Yanlin Wang , Lun Du , Junjie Chen , Shi Han , Hongyu Zhang , Dongmei Zhang , Hongbin Sun

How to properly conduct human evaluations for text summarization is a longstanding challenge. The Pyramid human evaluation protocol, which assesses content selection by breaking the reference summary into subunits and verifying their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Shiyue Zhang , David Wan , Arie Cattan , Ayal Klein , Ido Dagan , Mohit Bansal

The summarization capabilities of pretrained and large language models (LLMs) have been widely validated in general areas, but their use in scientific corpus, which involves complex sentences and specialized knowledge, has been less…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Xiuying Chen , Tairan Wang , Qingqing Zhu , Taicheng Guo , Shen Gao , Zhiyong Lu , Xin Gao , Xiangliang Zhang

Evaluating and comparing the academic performance of a journal, a researcher or a single paper has long remained a critical, necessary but also controversial issue. Most of existing metrics invalidate comparison across different fields of…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Tiancheng Li

Text summarization condenses a text to a shorter version while retaining the important informations. Abstractive summarization is a recent development that generates new phrases, rather than simply copying or rephrasing sentences within the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-06 André Cibils , Claudiu Musat , Andreea Hossman , Michael Baeriswyl

Many scientific papers such as those in arXiv and PubMed data collections have abstracts with varying lengths of 50-1000 words and average length of approximately 200 words, where longer abstracts typically convey more information about the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Sajad Sotudeh , Nazli Goharian

We present Semantic WordRank (SWR), an unsupervised method for generating an extractive summary of a single document. Built on a weighted word graph with semantic and co-occurrence edges, SWR scores sentences using an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Hao Zhang , Jie Wang

Text summarization is an essential task in natural language processing, and researchers have developed various approaches over the years, ranging from rule-based systems to neural networks. However, there is no single model or approach that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Aleš Žagar , Marko Robnik-Šikonja

Multi-role dialogue summarization requires modeling complex interactions among multiple speakers while preserving role-specific information and factual consistency. However, most existing methods optimize for automatic metrics such as ROUGE…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Xiaoyong Mei , Tingting Zuo , Da Chen , Guangyu Hu , Xiangyu Wen , Chao Duan , Mingyan Zhang , Fudan Zheng

At the heart of the Pyramid evaluation method for text summarization lie human written summary content units (SCUs). These SCUs are concise sentences that decompose a summary into small facts. Such SCUs can be used to judge the quality of a…

Single document summarization generates summary by extracting the representative sentences from the document. In this paper, we presented a novel technique for summarization of domain-specific text from a single web document that uses…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Rushdi Shams , M. M. A. Hashem , Afrina Hossain , Suraiya Rumana Akter , Monika Gope