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Dialogue summarization aims to provide a concise and coherent summary of conversations between multiple speakers. While recent advancements in language models have enhanced this process, summarizing dialogues accurately and faithfully…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Eunice Akani , Benoit Favre , Frederic Bechet , Romain Gemignani

Understanding how policy is debated and justified in parliament is a fundamental aspect of the democratic process. However, the volume and complexity of such debates mean that outside audiences struggle to engage. Meanwhile, Large Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Eoghan Cunningham , Derek Greene , James Cross , Antonio Rago

Dialogue summarization aims to distill the core meaning of a conversation into a concise text. This is crucial for reducing the complexity and noise inherent in dialogue-heavy applications. While recent approaches typically train language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Mohamed Imed Eddine Ghebriout , Gaël Guibon , Ivan Lerner , Emmanuel Vincent

The United States have some of the highest rates of gun violence among developed countries. Yet, there is a disagreement about the extent to which firearms should be regulated. In this study, we employ social media signals to examine the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Yelena Mejova , Jisun An , Gianmarco De Francisci Morales , Haewoon Kwak

With the rapid increase in the volume of dialogue data from daily life, there is a growing demand for dialogue summarization. Unfortunately, training a large summarization model is generally infeasible due to the inadequacy of dialogue data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Yicheng Zou , Bolin Zhu , Xingwu Hu , Tao Gui , Qi Zhang

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

We construct Global Voices, a multilingual dataset for evaluating cross-lingual summarization methods. We extract social-network descriptions of Global Voices news articles to cheaply collect evaluation data for into-English and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Khanh Nguyen , Hal Daumé

Annotating task-oriented dialogues is notorious for the expensive and difficult data collection process. Few-shot dialogue state tracking (DST) is a realistic solution to this problem. In this paper, we hypothesize that dialogue summaries…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Jamin Shin , Hangyeol Yu , Hyeongdon Moon , Andrea Madotto , Juneyoung Park

LLMs (Large Language Models) usually interact with users in the form of dialogue and generate responses following their instructions, which naturally require dialogue comprehension abilities. However, dialogue comprehension is a general…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Shuaijie She , Shujian Huang , Xingyun Wang , Yanke Zhou , Jiajun Chen

Debate summarization is one of the novel and challenging research areas in automatic text summarization which has been largely unexplored. In this paper, we develop a debate summarization pipeline to summarize key topics which are discussed…

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

Speech summarization has become an essential tool for efficiently managing and accessing the growing volume of spoken and audiovisual content. However, despite its increasing importance, speech summarization remains loosely defined. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Fabian Retkowski , Maike Züfle , Andreas Sudmann , Dinah Pfau , Shinji Watanabe , Jan Niehues , Alexander Waibel

The amount of user generated contents from various social medias allows analyst to handle a wide view of conversations on several topics related to their business. Nevertheless keeping up-to-date with this amount of information is not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Jean Valère Cossu , Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno , Eric SanJuan , Marc El-Bèze

Unlike well-structured text, such as news reports and encyclopedia articles, dialogue content often comes from two or more interlocutors, exchanging information with each other. In such a scenario, the topic of a conversation can vary upon…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Junpeng Liu , Yanyan Zou , Hainan Zhang , Hongshen Chen , Zhuoye Ding , Caixia Yuan , Xiaojie Wang

Information overloading requires the need for summarizers to extract salient information from the text. Currently, there is an overload of dialogue data due to the rise of virtual communication platforms. The rise of Covid-19 has led people…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Lakshmi Prasanna Kumar , Arman Kabiri

The scarcity of comprehensive up-to-date studies on evaluation metrics for text summarization and the lack of consensus regarding evaluation protocols continue to inhibit progress. We address the existing shortcomings of summarization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Alexander R. Fabbri , Wojciech Kryściński , Bryan McCann , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher , Dragomir Radev

While the NLP community has produced numerous summarization benchmarks, none provide the rich annotations required to simultaneously address many important problems related to control and reliability. We introduce a Wikipedia-derived…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Kundan Krishna , Prakhar Gupta , Sanjana Ramprasad , Byron C. Wallace , Jeffrey P. Bigham , Zachary C. Lipton

Dialogue summarization has recently garnered significant attention due to its wide range of applications. However, existing methods for summarizing dialogues have limitations because they do not take into account the inherent structure of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Yu Li , Baolin Peng , Pengcheng He , Michel Galley , Zhou Yu , Jianfeng Gao

We advance the state-of-the-art in unsupervised abstractive dialogue summarization by utilizing multi-sentence compression graphs. Starting from well-founded assumptions about word graphs, we present simple but reliable path-reranking and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Seongmin Park , Jihwa Lee

We present a novel summarization framework for reviews of products and services by selecting informative and concise text segments from the reviews. Our method consists of two major steps. First, we identify five frequently occurring…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-11-26 Trung V. Nguyen , Alice H. Oh

Our goal is to find combinations of facts that optimally summarize data sets. We consider this problem in the context of voice query interfaces for simple, exploratory data analysis. Here, the system answers voice queries with a short…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Immanuel Trummer , Connor Anderson