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Automatic meeting summarization is becoming increasingly popular these days. The ability to automatically summarize meetings and to extract key information could greatly increase the efficiency of our work and life. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Andras Huebner , Wei Ji , Xiang Xiao

A massive amount of reviews are generated daily from various platforms. It is impossible for people to read through tons of reviews and to obtain useful information. Automatic summarizing customer reviews thus is important for identifying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Pengyuan Li , Lei Huang , Guang-jie Ren

In an era in which new controversies rapidly emerge and evolve on social media, navigating social media platforms to learn about a new controversy can be an overwhelming task. In this light, there has been significant work that studies how…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Myungha Jang , James Allan

Customer reviews are vital for making purchasing decisions in the Information Age. Such reviews can be automatically summarized to provide the user with an overview of opinions. In this tutorial, we present various aspects of opinion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Reinald Kim Amplayo , Arthur Bražinskas , Yoshi Suhara , Xiaolan Wang , Bing 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

Opinion summarization is the task of automatically creating summaries that reflect subjective information expressed in multiple documents, such as product reviews. While the majority of previous work has focused on the extractive setting,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Arthur Bražinskas , Mirella Lapata , Ivan Titov

The development of summarization research has been significantly hampered by the costly acquisition of reference summaries. This paper proposes an effective way to automatically collect large scales of news-related multi-document summaries…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Ziqiang Cao , Chengyao Chen , Wenjie Li , Sujian Li , Furu Wei , Ming Zhou

Generating a concise summary from a large collection of arguments on a given topic is an intriguing yet understudied problem. We propose to represent such summaries as a small set of talking points, termed "key points", each scored…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Roy Bar-Haim , Lilach Eden , Roni Friedman , Yoav Kantor , Dan Lahav , Noam Slonim

Humans are remarkably efficient at forming spatial understanding from just a few visual observations. When browsing real estate or navigating unfamiliar spaces, they intuitively select a small set of views that summarize the spatial layout.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Chao Chen , Mingzhi Zhu , Ankush Pratap Singh , Yu Yan , Felix Juefei-Xu , Chen Feng

Opinion summarisation synthesises opinions expressed in a group of documents discussing the same topic to produce a single summary. Recent work has looked at opinion summarisation of clusters of social media posts. Such posts are noisy and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Jiayu Song , Iman Munire Bilal , Adam Tsakalidis , Rob Procter , Maria Liakata

Community Question Answering (CQA) fora such as Stack Overflow and Yahoo! Answers contain a rich resource of answers to a wide range of community-based questions. Each question thread can receive a large number of answers with different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Alexander R. Fabbri , Xiaojian Wu , Srini Iyer , Haoran Li , Mona Diab

Text summarization is the process of condensing a piece of text to fewer sentences, while still preserving its content. Chat transcript, in this context, is a textual copy of a digital or online conversation between a customer (caller) and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Pratik K. Biswas

Automatic text summarization, the automated process of shortening a text while reserving the main ideas of the document(s), is a critical research area in natural language processing. The aim of this literature review is to survey the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Yue Dong

Summarization datasets are often assembled either by scraping naturally occurring public-domain summaries -- which are nearly always in difficult-to-work-with technical domains -- or by using approximate heuristics to extract them from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Alex Wang , Richard Yuanzhe Pang , Angelica Chen , Jason Phang , Samuel R. Bowman

Usage of online textual media is steadily increasing. Daily, more and more news stories, blog posts and scientific articles are added to the online volumes. These are all freely accessible and have been employed extensively in multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Nattapong Sanchan , Ahmet Aker , Kalina Bontcheva

Fighting misinformation is a challenging, yet crucial, task. Despite the growing number of experts being involved in manual fact-checking, this activity is time-consuming and cannot keep up with the ever-increasing amount of Fake News…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Daniel Russo , Serra Sinem Tekiroglu , Marco Guerini

Automatic summarization is the process of shortening a set of textual data computationally, to create a subset (a summary) that represents the most important pieces of information in the original text. Existing summarization methods can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Meng Cao

The continuous and rapid growth of highly interconnected datasets, which are both voluminous and complex, calls for the development of adequate processing and analytical techniques. One method for condensing and simplifying such datasets is…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Angela Bonifati , Stefania Dumbrava , Haridimos Kondylakis

With an ever increasing size of text present on the Internet, automatic summary generation remains an important problem for natural language understanding. In this work we explore a novel full-fledged pipeline for text summarization with an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Shibhansh Dohare , Harish Karnick , Vivek Gupta

Automatic summarization of natural language is a current topic in computer science research and industry, studied for decades because of its usefulness across multiple domains. For example, summarization is necessary to create reviews such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Marc Everett Johnson