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Legal texts routinely use concepts that are difficult to understand. Lawyers elaborate on the meaning of such concepts by, among other things, carefully investigating how have they been used in past. Finding text snippets that mention a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Jaromir Savelka , Kevin D. Ashley

Due to their length and complexity, long regulatory texts are challenging to summarize. To address this, a multi-step extractive-abstractive architecture is proposed to handle lengthy regulatory documents more effectively. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Mika Sie , Ruby Beek , Michiel Bots , Sjaak Brinkkemper , Albert Gatt

Document summarization provides an instrument for faster understanding the collection of text documents and has several real-life applications. With the growth of online text data, numerous summarization models have been proposed recently.…

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

Countless terms of service (ToS) are being signed everyday by users all over the world while interacting with all kinds of apps and websites. More often than not, these online contracts spanning double-digit pages are signed blindly by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Mirgita Frasheri , Arian Bakhtiarnia , Lukas Esterle , Alexandros Iosifidis

We carry out experiments with deep learning models of summarization across the domains of news, personal stories, meetings, and medical articles in order to understand how content selection is performed. We find that many sophisticated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Chris Kedzie , Kathleen McKeown , Hal Daume

Language models (LMs) show promise as tools for communicating science to the general public by simplifying and summarizing complex language. Because models can be prompted to generate text for a specific audience (e.g., college-educated…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Tal August , Kyle Lo , Noah A. Smith , Katharina Reinecke

Huge amount of information is present in the World Wide Web and a large amount is being added to it frequently. A query-specific summary of multiple documents is very helpful to the user in this context. Currently, few systems have been…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-01-20 C Ravindranath Chowdary , P Sreenivasa Kumar

A common method for extractive multi-document news summarization is to re-formulate it as a single-document summarization problem by concatenating all documents as a single meta-document. However, this method neglects the relative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Chao Zhao , Tenghao Huang , Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury , Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran , Kathleen McKeown , Snigdha Chaturvedi

The increasing availability of semantic data has substantially enhanced Web applications. Semantic data such as RDF data is commonly represented as entity-property-value triples. The magnitude of semantic data, in particular the large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Qingxia Liu , Gong Cheng , Kalpa Gunaratna , Yuzhong Qu

Cross-lingual summarization aims to bridge language barriers by summarizing documents in different languages. However, ensuring semantic coherence across languages is an overlooked challenge and can be critical in several contexts. To fill…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Diogo Pernes , Gonçalo M. Correia , Afonso Mendes

In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital content, the task of summarizing multimedia documents, which encompass textual, visual, and auditory elements, presents intricate challenges. These challenges include extracting pertinent…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Azze-Eddine Maredj , Madjid Sadallah

This paper presents an unsupervised extractive approach to summarize scientific long documents based on the Information Bottleneck principle. Inspired by previous work which uses the Information Bottleneck principle for sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Jiaxin Ju , Ming Liu , Huan Yee Koh , Yuan Jin , Lan Du , Shirui Pan

Legal services rely heavily on text processing. While large language models (LLMs) show promise, their application in legal contexts demands higher accuracy, repeatability, and transparency. Logic programs, by encoding legal concepts as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Manuj Kant , Sareh Nabi , Manav Kant , Roland Scharrer , Megan Ma , Marzieh Nabi

Legal contracts in the custody and fund services domain govern critical aspects such as key provider responsibilities, fee schedules, and indemnification rights. However, it is challenging for an off-the-shelf Large Language Model (LLM) to…

A system that could reliably identify and sum up the most important points of a conversation would be valuable in a wide variety of real-world contexts, from business meetings to medical consultations to customer service calls. Recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Virgile Rennard , Guokan Shang , Julie Hunter , Michalis Vazirgiannis

The rapid expansion of information from diverse sources has heightened the need for effective automatic text summarization, which condenses documents into shorter, coherent texts. Summarization methods generally fall into two categories:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Aziz Amari , Mohamed Achref Ben Ammar

In recent years, text summarization methods have attracted much attention again thanks to the researches on neural network models. Most of the current text summarization methods based on neural network models are supervised methods which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Dehao Tao , Yingzhu Xiong , Zhongliang Yang , Yongfeng Huang

With the broad growth of video capturing devices and applications on the web, it is more demanding to provide desired video content for users efficiently. Video summarization facilitates quickly grasping video content by creating a compact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Mayu Otani , Yale Song , Yang Wang

Text summarization can be classified into two approaches: extraction and abstraction. This paper focuses on extraction approach. The goal of text summarization based on extraction approach is sentence selection. One of the methods to obtain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-06-26 Ladda Suanmali , Naomie Salim , Mohammed Salem Binwahlan

Text summarization aims to compress a textual document to a short summary while keeping salient information. Extractive approaches are widely used in text summarization because of their fluency and efficiency. However, most of existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Peng Cui , Le Hu , Yuanchao Liu
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