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Multi-document summarization (MDS) is an effective tool for information aggregation that generates an informative and concise summary from a cluster of topic-related documents. Our survey, the first of its kind, systematically overviews the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Congbo Ma , Wei Emma Zhang , Mingyu Guo , Hu Wang , Quan Z. Sheng

In this paper, we propose a novel neural single document extractive summarization model for long documents, incorporating both the global context of the whole document and the local context within the current topic. We evaluate the model on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Wen Xiao , Giuseppe Carenini

The increasing amount of online content motivated the development of multi-document summarization methods. In this work, we explore straightforward approaches to extend single-document summarization methods to multi-document summarization.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-07-13 Luís Marujo , Ricardo Ribeiro , David Martins de Matos , João P. Neto , Anatole Gershman , Jaime Carbonell

When seeking information not covered in patient-friendly documents, like medical pamphlets, healthcare consumers may turn to the research literature. Reading medical papers, however, can be a challenging experience. To improve access to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Tal August , Lucy Lu Wang , Jonathan Bragg , Marti A. Hearst , Andrew Head , Kyle Lo

Reviewing contracts is a time-consuming procedure that incurs large expenses to companies and social inequality to those who cannot afford it. In this work, we propose "document-level natural language inference (NLI) for contracts", a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Yuta Koreeda , Christopher D. Manning

Automatic summarization of legal case judgements has traditionally been attempted by using extractive summarization methods. However, in recent years, abstractive summarization models are gaining popularity since they can generate more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Aniket Deroy , Kripabandhu Ghosh , Saptarshi Ghosh

In recent times, data is growing rapidly in every domain such as news, social media, banking, education, etc. Due to the excessiveness of data, there is a need of automatic summarizer which will be capable to summarize the data especially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Santosh Kumar Bharti , Korra Sathya Babu

Many legal professionals think that the explosion of information about local, regional, national, and international legislation makes their practice more costly, time-consuming, and even error-prone. The two main reasons for this are that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Jorge Martinez-Gil

Financial markets change rapidly due to news, economic shifts, and geopolitical events. Quick reactions are vital for investors to avoid losses or capture short-term gains. As a result, concise financial news summaries are critical for…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Nicolas Reche , Elvys Linhares-Pontes , Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno

The transformation of unstructured legal contracts into standardized, machine-readable formats is essential for automating financial workflows. The Common Domain Model (CDM) provides a standardized framework for this purpose, but converting…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Maruf Ahmed Mridul , Oshani Seneviratne

Automatic Text Summarization strategies have been successfully employed to digest text collections and extract its essential content. Usually, summaries are generated using textual corpora that belongs to the same domain area where the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Vinicius Woloszyn , Guilherme Medeiros Machado , Leandro Krug Wives , José Palazzo Moreira de Oliveira

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

Sentence extraction based summarization methods has some limitations as it doesn't go into the semantics of the document. Also, it lacks the capability of sentence generation which is intuitive to humans. Here we present a novel method to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-06-06 Divyanshu Bhartiya , Ashudeep Singh

The number of scientific publications nowadays is rapidly increasing, causing information overload for researchers and making it hard for scholars to keep up to date with current trends and lines of work. Consequently, recent work on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Sotaro Takeshita , Tommaso Green , Niklas Friedrich , Kai Eckert , Simone Paolo Ponzetto

Distributed representation learned with neural networks has recently shown to be effective in modeling natural languages at fine granularities such as words, phrases, and even sentences. Whether and how such an approach can be extended to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Qian Chen , Xiaodan Zhu , Zhenhua Ling , Si Wei , Hui Jiang

State-of-the-art extractive multi-document summarization systems are usually designed without any concern about privacy issues, meaning that all documents are open to third parties. In this paper we propose a privacy-preserving approach to…

In this work, we present the results of a systematic study to investigate the (commercial) benefits of automatic text summarization systems in a real world scenario. More specifically, we define a use case in the context of media monitoring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Pashutan Modaresi , Philipp Gross , Siavash Sefidrodi , Mirja Eckhof , Stefan Conrad

Smart Contracts use computer technology to automate the performance of aspects of commercial agreements. Yet how can there be confidence that the computer code is faithful to the intentions of the parties? To understand the depth and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Christopher D. Clack

Long document summarization poses a significant challenge in natural language processing due to input lengths that exceed the capacity of most state-of-the-art pre-trained language models. This study proposes a hierarchical framework that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yuan-Jhe Yin , Bo-Yu Chen , Berlin Chen

Text simplification is a valuable technique. However, current research is limited to sentence simplification. In this paper, we define and investigate a new task of document-level text simplification, which aims to simplify a document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Renliang Sun , Hanqi Jin , Xiaojun Wan