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Text summarization in medicine can help doctors for reducing the time to access important information from countless documents. The paper offers a supervised extractive summarization method based on conditional generative adversarial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Seyed Vahid Moravvej , Abdolreza Mirzaei , Mehran Safayani

Pre-trained and fine-tuned news summarizers are expected to generalize to news articles unseen in the fine-tuning (training) phase. However, these articles often contain specifics, such as new events and people, a summarizer could not learn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Arthur Bražinskas , Mengwen Liu , Ramesh Nallapati , Sujith Ravi , Markus Dreyer

We consider the problem of automatically generating a narrative biomedical evidence summary from multiple trial reports. We evaluate modern neural models for abstractive summarization of relevant article abstracts from systematic reviews…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Byron C. Wallace , Sayantan Saha , Frank Soboczenski , Iain J. Marshall

Text segmentation is important for signaling a document's structure. Without segmenting a long document into topically coherent sections, it is difficult for readers to comprehend the text, let alone find important information. The problem…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Sangwoo Cho , Kaiqiang Song , Xiaoyang Wang , Fei Liu , Dong Yu

The task of automatic text summarization produces a concise and fluent text summary while preserving key information and overall meaning. Recent approaches to document-level summarization have seen significant improvements in recent years…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Gonçalo Raposo , Afonso Raposo , Ana Sofia Carmo

Extractive summarization is a task of highlighting the most important parts of the text. We introduce a new approach to extractive summarization task using hidden clustering structure of the text. Experimental results on CNN/DailyMail…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Tikhonov Pavel , Anastasiya Ianina , Valentin Malykh

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

In this paper, we exploit the innate document segment structure for improving the extractive summarization task. We build two text segmentation models and find the most optimal strategy to introduce their output predictions in an extractive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Lesly Miculicich , Benjamin Han

We present RepRank, an unsupervised graph-based ranking model for extractive multi-document summarization in which the similarity between words, sentences, and word-to-sentence can be estimated by the distances between their vector…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Zongyi Li , Xiaoqing Zheng , Jun He

Multi-document summarization is the process of automatically generating a concise summary of multiple documents related to the same topic. This summary can help users quickly understand the key information from a large collection of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Charles Rajan , Nishit Asnani , Shreya Singh

We introduce MemSum (Multi-step Episodic Markov decision process extractive SUMmarizer), a reinforcement-learning-based extractive summarizer enriched at each step with information on the current extraction history. When MemSum iteratively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Nianlong Gu , Elliott Ash , Richard H. R. Hahnloser

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

Since the advent of the web, the amount of data on wen has been increased several million folds. In recent years web data generated is more than data stored for years. One important data format is text. To answer user queries over the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Chandra Shekhar Yadav

Current abstractive summarization systems outperform their extractive counterparts, but their widespread adoption is inhibited by the inherent lack of interpretability. To achieve the best of both worlds, we propose EASE, an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Haoran Li , Arash Einolghozati , Srinivasan Iyer , Bhargavi Paranjape , Yashar Mehdad , Sonal Gupta , Marjan Ghazvininejad

Unsupervised extractive summarization is an important technique in information extraction and retrieval. Compared with supervised method, it does not require high-quality human-labelled summaries for training and thus can be easily applied…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Renlong Jie , Xiaojun Meng , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu

Automated multi-document extractive text summarization is a widely studied research problem in the field of natural language understanding. Such extractive mechanisms compute in some form the worthiness of a sentence to be included into the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Abhishek Kumar Singh , Manish Gupta , Vasudeva Varma

This work presents a new approach to unsupervised abstractive summarization based on maximizing a combination of coverage and fluency for a given length constraint. It introduces a novel method that encourages the inclusion of key terms…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Philippe Laban , Andrew Hsi , John Canny , Marti A. Hearst

Attention-based neural abstractive summarization systems equipped with copy mechanisms have shown promising results. Despite this success, it has been noticed that such a system generates a summary by mostly, if not entirely, copying over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Noah Weber , Leena Shekhar , Niranjan Balasubramanian , Kyunghyun Cho

Summarization systems face the core challenge of identifying and selecting important information. In this paper, we tackle the problem of content selection in unsupervised extractive summarization of long, structured documents. We introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Ronald Cardenas , Matthias Galle , Shay B. Cohen

Document summarization condenses a long document into a short version with salient information and accurate semantic descriptions. The main issue is how to make the output summary semantically consistent with the input document. To reach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Mingyang Song , Liping Jing