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As an attempt to combine extractive and abstractive summarization, Sentence Rewriting models adopt the strategy of extracting salient sentences from a document first and then paraphrasing the selected ones to generate a summary. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Sanghwan Bae , Taeuk Kim , Jihoon Kim , Sang-goo Lee

Current neural network-based methods to the problem of document summarisation struggle when applied to datasets containing large inputs. In this paper we propose a new approach to the challenge of content-selection when dealing with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Maciej Zembrzuski , Saad Mahamood

Text summarization is the process of extracting the most important information from the text and presenting it concisely in fewer sentences. Call transcript is a text that involves textual description of a phone conversation between a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Pratik K. Biswas , Aleksandr Iakubovich

Recently BERT has been adopted for document encoding in state-of-the-art text summarization models. However, sentence-based extractive models often result in redundant or uninformative phrases in the extracted summaries. Also, long-range…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Jiacheng Xu , Zhe Gan , Yu Cheng , Jingjing Liu

Amongst the best means to summarize is highlighting. In this paper, we aim to generate summary highlights to be overlaid on the original documents to make it easier for readers to sift through a large amount of text. The method allows…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Sangwoo Cho , Kaiqiang Song , Chen Li , Dong Yu , Hassan Foroosh , Fei Liu

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

Long documents such as academic articles and business reports have been the standard format to detail out important issues and complicated subjects that require extra attention. An automatic summarization system that can effectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Huan Yee Koh , Jiaxin Ju , Ming Liu , Shirui Pan

Automatically generating short summaries from users' online mental health posts could save counselors' reading time and reduce their fatigue so that they can provide timely responses to those seeking help for improving their mental state.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Sajad Sotudeh , Nazli Goharian , Hanieh Deilamsalehy , Franck Dernoncourt

Recent Transformer-based summarization models have provided a promising approach to abstractive summarization. They go beyond sentence selection and extractive strategies to deal with more complicated tasks such as novel word generation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Sajad Sotudeh , Hanieh Deilamsalehy , Franck Dernoncourt , Nazli Goharian

Word frequency-based methods for extractive summarization are easy to implement and yield reasonable results across languages. However, they have significant limitations - they ignore the role of context, they offer uneven coverage of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Archit Sakhadeo , Nisheeth Srivastava

This study presents a controllable abstract summary generation method for large language models based on prompt engineering. To address the issues of summary quality and controllability in traditional methods, we design a multi-stage prompt…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Xiangchen Song , Yuchen Liu , Yaxuan Luan , Jinxu Guo , Xiaofan Guo

The centroid-based model for extractive document summarization is a simple and fast baseline that ranks sentences based on their similarity to a centroid vector. In this paper, we apply this ranking to possible summaries instead of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Demian Gholipour Ghalandari

One of the most pressing issues that have arisen due to the rapid growth of the Internet is known as information overloading. Simplifying the relevant information in the form of a summary will assist many people because the material on any…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Divakar Yadav , Jalpa Desai , Arun Kumar Yadav

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

We present an empirical study in favor of a cascade architecture to neural text summarization. Summarization practices vary widely but few other than news summarization can provide a sufficient amount of training data enough to meet the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Logan Lebanoff , Franck Dernoncourt , Doo Soon Kim , Walter Chang , Fei Liu

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

Compressive summarization systems typically rely on a crafted set of syntactic rules to determine what spans of possible summary sentences can be deleted, then learn a model of what to actually delete by optimizing for content selection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Shrey Desai , Jiacheng Xu , Greg Durrett

We introduce 'extreme summarization', a new single-document summarization task which aims at creating a short, one-sentence news summary answering the question ``What is the article about?''. We argue that extreme summarization, by nature,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Shashi Narayan , Shay B. Cohen , Mirella Lapata

With the abundance of data and information in todays time, it is nearly impossible for man, or, even machine, to go through all of the data line by line. What one usually does is to try to skim through the lines and retain the absolutely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Imaad Zaffar Khan , Amaan Aijaz Sheikh , Utkarsh Sinha

Graphs that capture relations between textual units have great benefits for detecting salient information from multiple documents and generating overall coherent summaries. In this paper, we develop a neural abstractive multi-document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Wei Li , Xinyan Xiao , Jiachen Liu , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang , Junping Du