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Prior work in document summarization has mainly focused on generating short summaries of a document. While this type of summary helps get a high-level view of a given document, it is desirable in some cases to know more detailed information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Sajad Sotudeh , Arman Cohan , Nazli Goharian

As human society transitions into the information age, reduction in our attention span is a contingency, and people who spend time reading lengthy news articles are decreasing rapidly and the need for succinct information is higher than…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Aditya Saxena , Ashutosh Ranjan

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

Text Summarization is the task of condensing long text into just a handful of sentences. Many approaches have been proposed for this task, some of the very first were building statistical models (Extractive Methods) capable of selecting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Amr M. Zaki , Mahmoud I. Khalil , Hazem M. Abbas

We propose a simple approach for the abstractive summarization of long legal opinions that considers the argument structure of the document. Legal opinions often contain complex and nuanced argumentation, making it challenging to generate a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Mohamed Elaraby , Yang Zhong , Diane Litman

This paper proposes NOrmed Index of Retention (NOIR), a quantitative objective metric for evaluating summarization quality of arbitrary texts that relies on both the retention of semantic meaning and the summary length compression. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Andrew D. Foland

Abstracts derived from biomedical literature possess distinct domain-specific characteristics, including specialised writing styles and biomedical terminologies, which necessitate a deep understanding of the related literature. As a result,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Chen Tang , Shun Wang , Tomas Goldsack , Chenghua Lin

Natural Language Processing is booming with its applications in the real world, one of which is Text Summarization for large texts including news articles. This research paper provides an extensive comparative evaluation of extractive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Kavach Dheer , Arpit Dhankhar

With the explosive growth of textual information, summarization systems have become increasingly important. This work aims to concisely indicate the current state of the art in abstractive text summarization. As part of this, we outline the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Fabian Retkowski

Text summarization aims to extract essential information from a piece of text and transform the text into a concise version. Existing unsupervised abstractive summarization models leverage recurrent neural networks framework while the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Ziyi Yang , Chenguang Zhu , Robert Gmyr , Michael Zeng , Xuedong Huang , Eric Darve

In recent times, data is growing rapidly in every domain such as news, social media, banking, education, etc. Due to the excessiveness of data, there is a need of automatic summarizer which will be capable to summarize the data especially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Santosh Kumar Bharti , Korra Sathya Babu

Large-scale learning of transformer language models has yielded improvements on a variety of natural language understanding tasks. Whether they can be effectively adapted for summarization, however, has been less explored, as the learned…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Andrew Hoang , Antoine Bosselut , Asli Celikyilmaz , Yejin Choi

Despite the success of recent abstractive summarizers on automatic evaluation metrics, the generated summaries still present factual inconsistencies with the source document. In this paper, we focus on entity-level factual inconsistency,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Wen Xiao , Giuseppe Carenini

Automatic text summarization aims to cut down readers time and cognitive effort by reducing the content of a text document without compromising on its essence. Ergo, informativeness is the prime attribute of document summary generated by an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Alka Khurana , Vasudha Bhatnagar

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

Recent advances in natural language processing have enabled automation of a wide range of tasks, including machine translation, named entity recognition, and sentiment analysis. Automated summarization of documents, or groups of documents,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Amanuel Alambo , Cori Lohstroh , Erik Madaus , Swati Padhee , Brandy Foster , Tanvi Banerjee , Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan , Michael Raymer

This paper describes a method for multi-document update summarization that relies on a double maximization criterion. A Maximal Marginal Relevance like criterion, modified and so called Smmr, is used to select sentences that are close to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-04-21 Florian Boudin , Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno , Marc El-Bèze

Current research in automatic single document summarization is dominated by two effective, yet naive approaches: summarization by sentence extraction, and headline generation via bag-of-words models. While successful in some tasks, neither…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2009-07-07 Hal Daumé , Daniel Marcu

Text simplification intends to make a text easier to read while preserving its core meaning. Intuitively and as shown in previous works, these two dimensions (simplification and meaning preservation) are often-times inversely correlated. An…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Liam Cripwell , Joël Legrand , Claire Gardent

Text summarization involves reducing extensive documents to short sentences that encapsulate the essential ideas. The goal is to create a summary that effectively conveys the main points of the original text. We spend a significant amount…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Asif Ahammad Miazee , Tonmoy Roy , Md Robiul Islam , Yeamin Safat