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Our analysis of large summarization datasets indicates that redundancy is a very serious problem when summarizing long documents. Yet, redundancy reduction has not been thoroughly investigated in neural summarization. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Wen Xiao , Giuseppe Carenini

Producing a reduced version of a source text, as in generic or focused summarization, inherently involves two distinct subtasks: deciding on targeted content and generating a coherent text conveying it. While some popular approaches address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Aviv Slobodkin , Paul Roit , Eran Hirsch , Ori Ernst , Ido Dagan

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

We present a novel approach for training small language models for reasoning-intensive document ranking that combines knowledge distillation with reinforcement learning optimization. While existing methods often rely on expensive human…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Chris Samarinas , Hamed Zamani

We consider the problem of using sentence compression techniques to facilitate query-focused multi-document summarization. We present a sentence-compression-based framework for the task, and design a series of learning-based compression…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Lu Wang , Hema Raghavan , Vittorio Castelli , Radu Florian , Claire Cardie

Recently, encoder-decoder models are widely used in social media text summarization. However, these models sometimes select noise words in irrelevant sentences as part of a summary by error, thus declining the performance. In order to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Jingjing Xu

In the age of information overload, content management for online news articles relies on efficient summarization to enhance accessibility and user engagement. This article addresses the challenge of extractive text summarization by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Sajib Biswas , Milon Biswas , Arunima Mandal , Fatema Tabassum Liza , Joy Sarker

Traditional sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models and other variations of the attention-mechanism such as hierarchical attention have been applied to the text summarization problem. Though there is a hierarchy in the way humans use language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Rajeev Bhatt Ambati , Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay , Prasenjit Mitra

Abstractive summarization typically relies on large collections of paired articles and summaries. However, in many cases, parallel data is scarce and costly to obtain. We develop an abstractive summarization system that relies only on large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Nikola I. Nikolov , Richard H. R. Hahnloser

Text Categorization is the task of automatically sorting a set of documents into categories from a predefined set and Text Summarization is a brief and accurate representation of input text such that the output covers the most important…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Khushboo Thakkar , Urmila Shrawankar

Two-step approaches, in which summary candidates are generated-then-reranked to return a single summary, can improve ROUGE scores over the standard single-step approach. Yet, standard decoding methods (i.e., beam search, nucleus sampling,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Griffin Adams , Alexander R. Fabbri , Faisal Ladhak , Kathleen McKeown , Noémie Elhadad

Reinforcement Learning (RL) based document summarisation systems yield state-of-the-art performance in terms of ROUGE scores, because they directly use ROUGE as the rewards during training. However, summaries with high ROUGE scores often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Florian Böhm , Yang Gao , Christian M. Meyer , Ori Shapira , Ido Dagan , Iryna Gurevych

A key problem in text summarization is finding a salience function which determines what information in the source should be included in the summary. This paper describes the use of machine learning on a training corpus of documents and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Inderjeet Mani , Eric Bloedorn

Keyphrases are crucial for searching and systematizing scholarly documents. Most current methods for keyphrase extraction are aimed at the extraction of the most significant words in the text. But in practice, the list of keyphrases often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Anna Glazkova , Dmitry Morozov

Work on summarization has explored both reinforcement learning (RL) optimization using ROUGE as a reward and syntax-aware models, such as models those input is enriched with part-of-speech (POS)-tags and dependency information. However, it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Hoa T. Le , Christophe Cerisara , Claire Gardent

To automatically produce a brief yet expressive summary of a long video, an automatic algorithm should start by resembling the human process of summary generation. Prior work proposed supervised and unsupervised algorithms to train models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Mohamed Elfeki , Ali Borji

The lack of diversity in the datasets available for automatic summarization of documents has meant that the vast majority of neural models for automatic summarization have been trained with news articles. These datasets are relatively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Roger Barrull , Jugal Kalita

Products in an ecommerce catalog contain information-rich fields like description and bullets that can be useful to extract entities (attributes) using NER based systems. However, these fields are often verbose and contain lot of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Prateek Verma , Aliasgar Kutiyanawala , Ke Shen

In a world of proliferating data, the ability to rapidly summarize text is growing in importance. Automatic summarization of text can be thought of as a sequence to sequence problem. Another area of natural language processing that solves a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Jacob Krantz , Jugal Kalita

Extractive summarization produces summaries by identifying and concatenating the most important sentences in a document. Since most summarization datasets do not come with gold labels indicating whether document sentences are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yumo Xu , Mirella Lapata