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Writing a survey paper on one research topic usually needs to cover the salient content from numerous related papers, which can be modeled as a multi-document summarization (MDS) task. Existing MDS datasets usually focus on producing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Shuaiqi Liu , Jiannong Cao , Ruosong Yang , Zhiyuan Wen

A notable challenge in Multi-Document Summarization (MDS) is the extremely-long length of the input. In this paper, we present an extract-then-abstract Transformer framework to overcome the problem. Specifically, we leverage pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Yun-Zhu Song , Yi-Syuan Chen , Hong-Han Shuai

The new era of technology has brought us to the point where it is convenient for people to share their opinions over an abundance of platforms. These platforms have a provision for the users to express themselves in multiple forms of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Anubhav Jangra , Sourajit Mukherjee , Adam Jatowt , Sriparna Saha , Mohammad Hasanuzzaman

Multi-document summarization (MDS) aims to compress the content in large document collections into short summaries and has important applications in story clustering for newsfeeds, presentation of search results, and timeline generation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Demian Gholipour Ghalandari , Chris Hokamp , Nghia The Pham , John Glover , Georgiana Ifrim

Abstractive multi-document summarization (MDS) is the task of automatically summarizing information in multiple documents, from news articles to conversations with multiple speakers. The training approaches for current MDS models can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Alexandra DeLucia , Mark Dredze

Till now, neural abstractive summarization methods have achieved great success for single document summarization (SDS). However, due to the lack of large scale multi-document summaries, such methods can be hardly applied to multi-document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Jianmin Zhang , Jiwei Tan , Xiaojun Wan

Multimodal abstractive summarization (MAS) aims to produce a concise summary given the multimodal data (text and vision). Existing studies mainly focus on how to effectively use the visual features from the perspective of an article, having…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Yunlong Liang , Fandong Meng , Jinan Xu , Jiaan Wang , Yufeng Chen , Jie Zhou

Multi-document summarization (MDS) has made significant progress in recent years, in part facilitated by the availability of new, dedicated datasets and capacious language models. However, a standing limitation of these models is that they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Jacob Parnell , Inigo Jauregi Unanue , Massimo Piccardi

Open-domain Multi-Document Summarization (ODMDS) is a critical tool for condensing vast arrays of documents into coherent, concise summaries. With a more inter-related document set, there does not necessarily exist a correct answer for the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Yijie Zhou , Kejian Shi , Wencai Zhang , Yixin Liu , Yilun Zhao , Arman Cohan

Multi-document summarization (MDS) generates a summary from a document set. Each document in a set describes topic-relevant concepts, while per document also has its unique contents. However, the document specificity receives little…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Congbo Ma , Wei Emma Zhang , Hu Wang , Haojie Zhuang , Mingyu Guo

Summarizing text-rich documents has been long studied in the literature, but most of the existing efforts have been made to summarize a static and predefined multi-document set. With the rapid development of online platforms for generating…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Susik Yoon , Hou Pong Chan , Jiawei Han

In the field of multi-document summarization (MDS), transformer-based models have demonstrated remarkable success, yet they suffer an input length limitation. Current methods apply truncation after the retrieval process to fit the context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Shiyin Tan , Jaeeon Park , Dongyuan Li , Renhe Jiang , Manabu Okumura

A common method for extractive multi-document news summarization is to re-formulate it as a single-document summarization problem by concatenating all documents as a single meta-document. However, this method neglects the relative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Chao Zhao , Tenghao Huang , Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury , Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran , Kathleen McKeown , Snigdha Chaturvedi

We present PeerSum, a new MDS dataset using peer reviews of scientific publications. Our dataset differs from the existing MDS datasets in that our summaries (i.e., the meta-reviews) are highly abstractive and they are real summaries of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Miao Li , Jianzhong Qi , Jey Han Lau

In the rapidly evolving digital era, there is an increasing demand for concise information as individuals seek to distil key insights from various sources. Recent attention from researchers on Multi-document Summarisation (MDS) has resulted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Kushan Hewapathirana , Nisansa de Silva , C. D. Athuraliya

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have achieved outstanding achievements in abstractive single-document summarization (SDS). However, such benefits may not fully extend to multi-document summarization (MDS), where the handling of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Chenhui Shen , Liying Cheng , Xuan-Phi Nguyen , Yang You , Lidong Bing

Document summarization is a task to generate afluent, condensed summary for a document, andkeep important information. A cluster of documents serves as the input for multi-document summarizing (MDS), while the cluster summary serves as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Huu-Thin Nguyen , Tam Doan Thanh , Cam-Van Thi Nguyen

We aim to renew interest in a particular multi-document summarization (MDS) task which we call AgreeSum: agreement-oriented multi-document summarization. Given a cluster of articles, the goal is to provide abstractive summaries that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Richard Yuanzhe Pang , Adam D. Lelkes , Vinh Q. Tran , Cong Yu

Multi-document summarization is the process of automatically generating a concise summary of multiple documents related to the same topic. This summary can help users quickly understand the key information from a large collection of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Charles Rajan , Nishit Asnani , Shreya Singh

A key challenge in Multi-Document Summarization (MDS) is effectively integrating information from multiple sources while maintaining coherence and topical relevance. While Large Language Models have shown impressive results in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Chuyuan Li , Austin Xu , Shafiq Joty , Giuseppe Carenini