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Today's research progress in the field of multi-document summarization is obstructed by the small number of available datasets. Since the acquisition of reference summaries is costly, existing datasets contain only hundreds of samples at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Diego Antognini , Boi Faltings

Linking facts across documents is a challenging task, as the language used to express the same information in a sentence can vary significantly, which complicates the task of multi-document summarization. Consequently, existing approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Diego Antognini , Boi Faltings

We consider the problem of automatically generating a narrative biomedical evidence summary from multiple trial reports. We evaluate modern neural models for abstractive summarization of relevant article abstracts from systematic reviews…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Byron C. Wallace , Sayantan Saha , Frank Soboczenski , Iain J. Marshall

Legal document summarization represents a significant advancement towards improving judicial efficiency through the automation of key information detection. Our approach leverages state-of-the-art natural language processing techniques to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Yongjie Li , Ruilin Nong , Jianan Liu , Lucas Evans

Automatic text summarization has experienced substantial progress in recent years. With this progress, the question has arisen whether the types of summaries that are typically generated by automatic summarization models align with users'…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Maartje ter Hoeve , Julia Kiseleva , Maarten de Rijke

The principle of the Information Bottleneck (Tishby et al. 1999) is to produce a summary of information X optimized to predict some other relevant information Y. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to unsupervised sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Peter West , Ari Holtzman , Jan Buys , Yejin Choi

We propose an ensemble algorithm, which provides a new approach for evaluating and summing up a set of function samples. The proposed algorithm is not a quantum algorithm, insofar it does not involve quantum entanglement. The query…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. D'Helon , V. Protopopescu

AI agents are being developed to support high stakes decision-making processes from driving cars to prescribing drugs, making it increasingly important for human users to understand their behavior. Policy summarization methods aim to convey…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Isaac Lage , Daphna Lifschitz , Finale Doshi-Velez , Ofra Amir

The abstractive methods lack of creative ability is particularly a problem in automatic text summarization. The summaries generated by models are mostly extracted from the source articles. One of the main causes for this problem is the lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Xiaojun Liu , Shunan Zang , Chuang Zhang , Xiaojun Chen , Yangyang Ding

An emerging class of data systems partition their data and precompute approximate summaries (i.e., sketches and samples) for each segment to reduce query costs. They can then aggregate and combine the segment summaries to estimate results…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Edward Gan , Peter Bailis , Moses Charikar

Video summarization creates an abridged version (i.e., a summary) that provides a quick overview of the video while retaining pertinent information. In this work, we focus on summarizing instructional videos and propose a method for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Apoorva Beedu , Irfan Essa

Sports game summarization aims to generate news articles from live text commentaries. A recent state-of-the-art work, SportsSum, not only constructs a large benchmark dataset, but also proposes a two-step framework. Despite its great…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Jiaan Wang , Zhixu Li , Qiang Yang , Jianfeng Qu , Zhigang Chen , Qingsheng Liu , Guoping Hu

Most research on abstractive summarization focuses on single-domain applications, often neglecting how domain shifts between documents affect performance and the generalization ability of summarization models. To address this issue, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Haohan Yuan , Haopeng Zhang

While document summarization with LLMs has enhanced access to textual information, concerns about the factual accuracy of these summaries persist, especially in the medical domain. Tracing evidence from which summaries are derived enables…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Bohao Chu , Meijie Li , Sameh Frihat , Chengyu Gu , Georg Lodde , Elisabeth Livingstone , Norbert Fuhr

Text summarization tasks commonly employ Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) to fit diverse standard datasets. While these PLMs excel in automatic evaluations, they frequently underperform in human evaluations, indicating a deviation between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Yang Han , Yiming Wang , Rui Wang , Lu Chen , Kai Yu

Automatic text summarization is generally considered as a challenging task in the NLP community. One of the challenges is the publicly available and large dataset that is relatively rare and difficult to construct. The problem is even worse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Kemal Kurniawan , Samuel Louvan

Scientific extreme summarization (TLDR) aims to form ultra-short summaries of scientific papers. Previous efforts on curating scientific TLDR datasets failed to scale up due to the heavy human annotation and domain expertise required. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Yuning Mao , Ming Zhong , Jiawei Han

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

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

Automatic summarization of natural language is a widely studied area in computer science, one that is broadly applicable to anyone who routinely needs to understand large quantities of information. For example, in the medical domain, recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Max Savery , Asma Ben Abacha , Soumya Gayen , Dina Demner-Fushman