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The substantial growth of textual content in diverse domains and platforms has led to a considerable need for Automatic Text Summarization (ATS) techniques that aid in the process of text analysis. The effectiveness of text summarization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Nevidu Jayatilleke , Ruvan Weerasinghe , Nipuna Senanayake

With more and more advanced data analysis techniques emerging, people will expect these techniques to be applied in more complex tasks and solve problems in our daily lives. Text Summarization is one of famous applications in Natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Chen Jia-Chen , Guillem Senabre , Allane Caron

Text summarization aims to compress a textual document to a short summary while keeping salient information. Extractive approaches are widely used in text summarization because of their fluency and efficiency. However, most of existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Peng Cui , Le Hu , Yuanchao Liu

Automatic Text Summarization strategies have been successfully employed to digest text collections and extract its essential content. Usually, summaries are generated using textual corpora that belongs to the same domain area where the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Vinicius Woloszyn , Guilherme Medeiros Machado , Leandro Krug Wives , José Palazzo Moreira de Oliveira

We propose a new approach to generate multiple variants of the target summary with diverse content and varying lengths, then score and select admissible ones according to users' needs. Abstractive summarizers trained on single reference…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Kaiqiang Song , Bingqing Wang , Zhe Feng , Fei Liu

Text segmentation is important for signaling a document's structure. Without segmenting a long document into topically coherent sections, it is difficult for readers to comprehend the text, let alone find important information. The problem…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Sangwoo Cho , Kaiqiang Song , Xiaoyang Wang , Fei Liu , Dong Yu

Traditional approaches to extractive summarization rely heavily on human-engineered features. In this work we propose a data-driven approach based on neural networks and continuous sentence features. We develop a general framework for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Jianpeng Cheng , Mirella Lapata

Highlighting while reading is a natural behavior for people to track salient content of a document. It would be desirable to teach an extractive summarizer to do the same. However, a major obstacle to the development of a supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Kristjan Arumae , Fei Liu

This paper addresses the problem of summarizing decisions in spoken meetings: our goal is to produce a concise {\it decision abstract} for each meeting decision. We explore and compare token-level and dialogue act-level automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Lu Wang , Claire Cardie

Text summarization helps readers capture salient information from documents, news, interviews, and meetings. However, most state-of-the-art pretrained language models (LM) are unable to efficiently process long text for many summarization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Yusen Zhang , Ansong Ni , Ziming Mao , Chen Henry Wu , Chenguang Zhu , Budhaditya Deb , Ahmed H. Awadallah , Dragomir Radev , Rui Zhang

The task of automatic text summarization produces a concise and fluent text summary while preserving key information and overall meaning. Recent approaches to document-level summarization have seen significant improvements in recent years…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Gonçalo Raposo , Afonso Raposo , Ana Sofia Carmo

Abstractive conversation summarization has received much attention recently. However, these generated summaries often suffer from insufficient, redundant, or incorrect content, largely due to the unstructured and complex characteristics of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Jiaao Chen , Diyi Yang

Summarizing content contributed by individuals can be challenging, because people make different lexical choices even when describing the same events. However, there remains a significant need to summarize such content. Examples include the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Wencan Luo , Fei Liu , Zitao Liu , Diane Litman

(Source) Code summarization aims to automatically generate summaries/comments for a given code snippet in the form of natural language. Such summaries play a key role in helping developers understand and maintain source code. Existing code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Weisong Sun , Chunrong Fang , Yuchen Chen , Quanjun Zhang , Guanhong Tao , Tingxu Han , Yifei Ge , Yudu You , Bin Luo

Automatic summarization of legal case judgements, which are known to be long and complex, has traditionally been tried via extractive summarization models. In recent years, generative models including abstractive summarization models and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Aniket Deroy , Kripabandhu Ghosh , Saptarshi Ghosh

Podcasts have recently shown a rapid rise in popularity. Summarization of podcast transcripts is of practical benefit to both content providers and consumers. It helps consumers to quickly decide whether they will listen to the podcasts and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Kaiqiang Song , Chen Li , Xiaoyang Wang , Dong Yu , Fei Liu

In this research work, we present a method to generate summaries of long scientific documents that uses the advantages of both extractive and abstractive approaches. Before producing a summary in an abstractive manner, we perform the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Vladislav Tretyak , Denis Stepanov

Amongst the best means to summarize is highlighting. In this paper, we aim to generate summary highlights to be overlaid on the original documents to make it easier for readers to sift through a large amount of text. The method allows…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Sangwoo Cho , Kaiqiang Song , Chen Li , Dong Yu , Hassan Foroosh , Fei Liu

The rapid expansion of information from diverse sources has heightened the need for effective automatic text summarization, which condenses documents into shorter, coherent texts. Summarization methods generally fall into two categories:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Aziz Amari , Mohamed Achref Ben Ammar

Abstractive dialogue summarization has received increasing attention recently. Despite the fact that most of the current dialogue summarization systems are trained to maximize the likelihood of human-written summaries and have achieved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Jiaao Chen , Mohan Dodda , Diyi Yang