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Different from general documents, it is recognised that the ease with which people can understand a biomedical text is eminently varied, owing to the highly technical nature of biomedical documents and the variance of readers' domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Zheheng Luo , Qianqian Xie , Sophia Ananiadou

We introduce the task of historical text summarisation, where documents in historical forms of a language are summarised in the corresponding modern language. This is a fundamentally important routine to historians and digital humanities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Xutan Peng , Yi Zheng , Chenghua Lin , Advaith Siddharthan

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have led to new summarization strategies, offering an extensive toolkit for extracting important information. However, these approaches are frequently limited by their reliance on isolated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Pranav Janjani , Mayank Palan , Sarvesh Shirude , Ninad Shegokar , Sunny Kumar , Faruk Kazi

The technology of automatic document summarization is maturing and may provide a solution to the information overload problem. Nowadays, document summarization plays an important role in information retrieval. With a large volume of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-04-10 Mohsen Pourvali , Mohammad Saniee Abadeh

Text summarization is a process to produce an abstract or a summary by selecting significant portion of the information from one or more texts. In an automatic text summarization process, a text is given to the computer and the computer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-01-12 Kamal Sarkar

User interaction with legal contracts has been limited to document reading, which is often complicated by complex, ambiguous legal language. We explore possible futures where contract interfaces go beyond single document interfaces to (1)…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ziheng Huang , Robin Kar , Hari Sundaram , Tal August

The proliferation of data and text documents such as articles, web pages, books, social network posts, etc. on the Internet has created a fundamental challenge in various fields of text processing under the title of "automatic text…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Kazem Taghandiki , Mohammad Hassan Ahmadi , Elnaz Rezaei Ehsan

The complexities of legalese in terms and policy documents can bind individuals to contracts they do not fully comprehend, potentially leading to uninformed data sharing. Our work seeks to alleviate this issue by developing language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Shikha Soneji , Mitchell Hoesing , Sujay Koujalgi , Jonathan Dodge

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

A challenging task when generating summaries of legal documents is the ability to address their argumentative nature. We introduce a simple technique to capture the argumentative structure of legal documents by integrating argument role…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Mohamed Elaraby , Diane Litman

Knowledge graphs capture entities and relations from long documents and can facilitate reasoning in many downstream applications. Extracting compact knowledge graphs containing only salient entities and relations is important but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Zeqiu Wu , Rik Koncel-Kedziorski , Mari Ostendorf , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising performance in summary evaluation tasks, yet they face challenges such as high computational costs and the Lost-in-the-Middle problem where important information in the middle of long…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Yunshu Wu , Hayate Iso , Pouya Pezeshkpour , Nikita Bhutani , Estevam Hruschka

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

The adoption of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has greatly benefited Natural Language Processing (NLP) during the past decade. However, the demands of long document analysis are quite different from those of shorter texts, while the ever…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Dimitrios Tsirmpas , Ioannis Gkionis , Georgios Th. Papadopoulos , Ioannis Mademlis

Document Summarization is the procedure of generating a meaningful and concise summary of a given document with the inclusion of relevant and topic-important points. There are two approaches: one is picking up the most relevant statements…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Siddhant Porwal , Laxmi Bewoor , Vivek Deshpande

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

With more and more advanced data analysis techniques emerging, people will expect these techniques to be applied in more complex tasks and solve problems in our daily lives. Text Summarization is one of famous applications in Natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Chen Jia-Chen , Guillem Senabre , Allane Caron

Current language understanding approaches focus on small documents, such as newswire articles, blog posts, product reviews and discussion forum entries. Understanding and extracting information from large documents like legal briefs,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman , Tim Finin

Information overloading requires the need for summarizers to extract salient information from the text. Currently, there is an overload of dialogue data due to the rise of virtual communication platforms. The rise of Covid-19 has led people…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Lakshmi Prasanna Kumar , Arman Kabiri

Legal documents are often long, dense, and difficult to comprehend, not only for laypeople but also for legal experts. While automated document summarization has great potential to improve access to legal knowledge, prevailing task-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Tsz Fung Pang , Maryam Berijanian , Thomas Orth , Breanna Shi , Charlotte S. Alexander