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Automatic summarization of legal case judgements, which are known to be long and complex, has traditionally been tried via extractive summarization models. In recent years, generative models including abstractive summarization models and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Aniket Deroy , Kripabandhu Ghosh , Saptarshi Ghosh

Automatic text summarization tools have a great impact on many fields, such as medicine, law, and scientific research in general. As information overload increases, automatic summaries allow handling the growing volume of documents, usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Augusto Villa-Monte , Laura Lanzarini , Aurelio F. Bariviera , José A. Olivas

We present work on summarising deliberative processes for non-English languages. Unlike commonly studied datasets, such as news articles, this deliberation dataset reflects difficulties of combining multiple narratives, mostly of poor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-13 M. Arana-Catania , Rob Procter , Yulan He , Maria Liakata

In this paper, we present a model for generating summaries of text documents with respect to a query. This is known as query-based summarization. We adapt an existing dataset of news article summaries for the task and train a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Johan Hasselqvist , Niklas Helmertz , Mikael Kågebäck

The automatic generation of radiology reports given medical radiographs has significant potential to operationally and improve clinical patient care. A number of prior works have focused on this problem, employing advanced methods from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Guanxiong Liu , Tzu-Ming Harry Hsu , Matthew McDermott , Willie Boag , Wei-Hung Weng , Peter Szolovits , Marzyeh Ghassemi

Recently, various neural encoder-decoder models pioneered by Seq2Seq framework have been proposed to achieve the goal of generating more abstractive summaries by learning to map input text to output text. At a high level, such neural models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Yichong Huang , Xiachong Feng , Xiaocheng Feng , Bing Qin

Abstractive summarization models typically learn to capture the salient information from scratch implicitly. Recent literature adds extractive summaries as guidance for abstractive summarization models to provide hints of salient content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Fei Wang , Kaiqiang Song , Hongming Zhang , Lifeng Jin , Sangwoo Cho , Wenlin Yao , Xiaoyang Wang , Muhao Chen , Dong Yu

This paper explores methods for extracting information from radiology reports that generalize across exam modalities to reduce requirements for annotated data. We demonstrate that multi-pass T5-based text-to-text generative models exhibit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Sitong Zhou , Meliha Yetisgen , Mari Ostendorf

Automatic sentence summarization produces a shorter version of a sentence, while preserving its most important information. A good summary is characterized by language fluency and high information overlap with the source sentence. We model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Raphael Schumann , Lili Mou , Yao Lu , Olga Vechtomova , Katja Markert

Brief Hospital Course (BHC) summaries are succinct summaries of an entire hospital encounter, embedded within discharge summaries, written by senior clinicians responsible for the overall care of a patient. Methods to automatically produce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Thomas Searle , Zina Ibrahim , James Teo , Richard Dobson

This paper proposes a medical text summarization method based on LongFormer, aimed at addressing the challenges faced by existing models when processing long medical texts. Traditional summarization methods are often limited by short-term…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Dan Sun , Jacky He , Hanlu Zhang , Zhen Qi , Hongye Zheng , Xiaokai Wang

Abstractive text summarization is a challenging task, and one need to design a mechanism to effectively extract salient information from the source text and then generate a summary. A parsing process of the source text contains critical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Haiyang Xu , Yun Wang , Kun Han , Baochang Ma , Junwen Chen , Xiangang Li

(Source) Code summarization aims to automatically generate summaries/comments for a given code snippet in the form of natural language. Such summaries play a key role in helping developers understand and maintain source code. Existing code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Weisong Sun , Chunrong Fang , Yuchen Chen , Quanjun Zhang , Guanhong Tao , Tingxu Han , Yifei Ge , Yudu You , Bin Luo

Social media platforms have become new battlegrounds for anti-social elements, with misinformation being the weapon of choice. Fact-checking organizations try to debunk as many claims as possible while staying true to their journalistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Varad Bhatnagar , Diptesh Kanojia , Kameswari Chebrolu

We propose a method for unsupervised opinion summarization that encodes sentences from customer reviews into a hierarchical discrete latent space, then identifies common opinions based on the frequency of their encodings. We are able to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Tom Hosking , Hao Tang , Mirella Lapata

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 propose an end-to-end neural model for zero-shot abstractive text summarization of paragraphs, and introduce a benchmark task, ROCSumm, based on ROCStories, a subset for which we collected human summaries. In this task, five-sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Peter J. Liu , Yu-An Chung , Jie Ren

Summarization of speech is a difficult problem due to the spontaneity of the flow, disfluencies, and other issues that are not usually encountered in written texts. Our work presents the first application of the BERTSum model to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Alexandra Savelieva , Bryan Au-Yeung , Vasanth Ramani

Summarizing novel chapters is a difficult task due to the input length and the fact that sentences that appear in the desired summaries draw content from multiple places throughout the chapter. We present a pipelined extractive-abstractive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Hardy Hardy , Miguel Ballesteros , Faisal Ladhak , Muhammad Khalifa , Vittorio Castelli , Kathleen McKeown

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