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Global partisan hostility and polarization has increased, and this polarization is heightened around presidential elections. Models capable of generating accurate summaries of diverse perspectives can help reduce such polarization by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Nicholas Deas , Kathleen McKeown

Automatic summarisation is a popular approach to reduce a document to its main arguments. Recent research in the area has focused on neural approaches to summarisation, which can be very data-hungry. However, few large datasets exist and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Ed Collins , Isabelle Augenstein , Sebastian Riedel

Online conversations have become more prevalent on public discussion platforms (e.g. Reddit). With growing controversial topics, it is desirable to summarize not only diverse arguments, but also their rationale and justification. Early…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-24 An Quang Tang , Xiuzhen Zhang , Minh Ngoc Dinh , Zhuang Li

The proliferation of social media platforms has given rise to the amount of online debates and arguments. Consequently, the need for automatic summarization methods for such debates is imperative, however this area of summarization is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Mohammad Khosravani , Chenyang Huang , Amine Trabelsi

Automatic summarization is the process of reducing a text document in order to generate a summary that retains the most important points of the original document. In this work, we study two problems - i) summarizing a text document as set…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jayaprakash Sundararaj

Automatic summarization techniques on meeting conversations developed so far have been primarily extractive, resulting in poor summaries. To improve this, we propose an approach to generate abstractive summaries by fusing important content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-25 Siddhartha Banerjee , Prasenjit Mitra , Kazunari Sugiyama

Summarizing texts is not a straightforward task. Before even considering text summarization, one should determine what kind of summary is expected. How much should the information be compressed? Is it relevant to reformulate or should the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Paul Tardy , David Janiszek , Yannick Estève , Vincent Nguyen

Opinion summarization is automatically generating summaries from a variety of subjective information, such as product reviews or political opinions. The challenge of opinions summarization lies in presenting divergent or even conflicting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Yuanyuan Lei , Kaiqiang Song , Sangwoo Cho , Xiaoyang Wang , Ruihong Huang , Dong Yu

Prior work in Argument Mining frequently alludes to its potential applications in automatic debating systems. Despite this focus, almost no datasets or models exist which apply natural language processing techniques to problems found within…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Allen Roush , Arvind Balaji

We present a multi-document summarizer, called MEAD, which generates summaries using cluster centroids produced by a topic detection and tracking system. We also describe two new techniques, based on sentence utility and subsumption, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Dragomir R. Radev , Hongyan Jing , Malgorzata Budzikowska

Abstractive dialogue summarization is to generate a concise and fluent summary covering the salient information in a dialogue among two or more interlocutors. It has attracted great attention in recent years based on the massive emergence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Qi Jia , Yizhu Liu , Siyu Ren , Kenny Q. Zhu

Concept maps can be used to concisely represent important information and bring structure into large document collections. Therefore, we study a variant of multi-document summarization that produces summaries in the form of concept maps.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Tobias Falke , Iryna Gurevych

In this paper, we propose two automated text processing frameworks specifically designed to analyze online reviews. The objective of the first framework is to summarize the reviews dataset by extracting essential sentence. This is performed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Xiangpeng Wan , Hakim Ghazzai , Yehia Massoud

Text summarization is an approach for identifying important information present within text documents. This computational technique aims to generate shorter versions of the source text, by including only the relevant and salient information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Kalliath Abdul Rasheed Issam , Shivam Patel , Subalalitha C. N

The technology of automatic document summarization is maturing and may provide a solution to the information overload problem. Nowadays, document summarization plays an important role in information retrieval. With a large volume of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-04-10 Mohsen Pourvali , Mohammad Saniee Abadeh

While online conversations can cover a vast amount of information in many different formats, abstractive text summarization has primarily focused on modeling solely news articles. This research gap is due, in part, to the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Alexander R. Fabbri , Faiaz Rahman , Imad Rizvi , Borui Wang , Haoran Li , Yashar Mehdad , Dragomir Radev

We present a novel divide-and-conquer method for the neural summarization of long documents. Our method exploits the discourse structure of the document and uses sentence similarity to split the problem into an ensemble of smaller…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Alexios Gidiotis , Grigorios Tsoumakas

Summarization is one of the key features of human intelligence. It plays an important role in understanding and representation. With rapid and continual expansion of texts, pictures and videos in cyberspace, automatic summarization becomes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-07-02 Hai Zhuge

Importance of document clustering is now widely acknowledged by researchers for better management, smart navigation, efficient filtering, and concise summarization of large collection of documents like World Wide Web (WWW). The next…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-12-30 Muhammad Rafi , M. Shahid Shaikh , Amir Farooq

The multi-document summarization task requires the designed summarizer to generate a short text that covers the important information of original documents and satisfies content diversity. This paper proposes a multi-document summarization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Bing Ma