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In a customer service system, dialogue summarization can boost service efficiency by automatically creating summaries for long spoken dialogues in which customers and agents try to address issues about specific topics. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Yicheng Zou , Lujun Zhao , Yangyang Kang , Jun Lin , Minlong Peng , Zhuoren Jiang , Changlong Sun , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang , Xiaozhong Liu

Previous dialogue summarization datasets mainly focus on open-domain chitchat dialogues, while summarization datasets for the broadly used task-oriented dialogue haven't been explored yet. Automatically summarizing such task-oriented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Lulu Zhao , Fujia Zheng , Keqing He , Weihao Zeng , Yuejie Lei , Huixing Jiang , Wei Wu , Weiran Xu , Jun Guo , Fanyu Meng

MultiWOZ 2.0 (Budzianowski et al., 2018) is a recently released multi-domain dialogue dataset spanning 7 distinct domains and containing over 10,000 dialogues. Though immensely useful and one of the largest resources of its kind to-date,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Mihail Eric , Rahul Goel , Shachi Paul , Adarsh Kumar , Abhishek Sethi , Peter Ku , Anuj Kumar Goyal , Sanchit Agarwal , Shuyang Gao , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

MultiWOZ is a well-known task-oriented dialogue dataset containing over 10,000 annotated dialogues spanning 8 domains. It is extensively used as a benchmark for dialogue state tracking. However, recent works have reported presence of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Xiaoxue Zang , Abhinav Rastogi , Srinivas Sunkara , Raghav Gupta , Jianguo Zhang , Jindong Chen

Summarizing medical conversations poses unique challenges due to the specialized domain and the difficulty of collecting in-domain training data. In this study, we investigate the performance of state-of-the-art doctor-patient conversation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Yu-Wen Chen , Julia Hirschberg

This paper explores the realm of abstractive text summarization through the lens of the SEASON (Salience Allocation as Guidance for Abstractive SummarizatiON) technique, a model designed to enhance summarization by leveraging salience…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Tohida Rehman , Raghubir Bose , Soumik Dey , Samiran Chattopadhyay

Robust state tracking for task-oriented dialogue systems currently remains restricted to a few popular languages. This paper shows that given a large-scale dialogue data set in one language, we can automatically produce an effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Mehrad Moradshahi , Victoria Tsai , Giovanni Campagna , Monica S. Lam

The anthology of spoken languages today is inundated with textual information, necessitating the development of automatic summarization models. In this manuscript, we propose an extractor-paraphraser based abstractive summarization system…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Anubhav Jangra , Raghav Jain , Vaibhav Mavi , Sriparna Saha , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

While online conversations can cover a vast amount of information in many different formats, abstractive text summarization has primarily focused on modeling solely news articles. This research gap is due, in part, to the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Alexander R. Fabbri , Faiaz Rahman , Imad Rizvi , Borui Wang , Haoran Li , Yashar Mehdad , Dragomir Radev

This paper introduces the SAMSum Corpus, a new dataset with abstractive dialogue summaries. We investigate the challenges it poses for automated summarization by testing several models and comparing their results with those obtained on a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Bogdan Gliwa , Iwona Mochol , Maciej Biesek , Aleksander Wawer

Speech summarization has become an essential tool for efficiently managing and accessing the growing volume of spoken and audiovisual content. However, despite its increasing importance, speech summarization remains loosely defined. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Fabian Retkowski , Maike Züfle , Andreas Sudmann , Dinah Pfau , Shinji Watanabe , Jan Niehues , Alexander Waibel

Abstractive text summarization aims at compressing the information of a long source document into a rephrased, condensed summary. Despite advances in modeling techniques, abstractive summarization models still suffer from several key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Vidhisha Balachandran , Artidoro Pagnoni , Jay Yoon Lee , Dheeraj Rajagopal , Jaime Carbonell , Yulia Tsvetkov

Dialogue summarization has drawn much attention recently. Especially in the customer service domain, agents could use dialogue summaries to help boost their works by quickly knowing customer's issues and service progress. These applications…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Haitao Lin , Liqun Ma , Junnan Zhu , Lu Xiang , Yu Zhou , Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong

Due to the lack of publicly available resources, conversation summarization has received far less attention than text summarization. As the purpose of conversations is to exchange information between at least two interlocutors, key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Zhengyuan Liu , Angela Ng , Sheldon Lee , Ai Ti Aw , Nancy F. Chen

Dialogue summarization aims to provide a concise and coherent summary of conversations between multiple speakers. While recent advancements in language models have enhanced this process, summarizing dialogues accurately and faithfully…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Eunice Akani , Benoit Favre , Frederic Bechet , Romain Gemignani

We propose an abstraction-based multi-document summarization framework that can construct new sentences by exploring more fine-grained syntactic units than sentences, namely, noun/verb phrases. Different from existing abstraction-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Lidong Bing , Piji Li , Yi Liao , Wai Lam , Weiwei Guo , Rebecca J. Passonneau

Abstractive dialogue summarization has received increasing attention recently. Despite the fact that most of the current dialogue summarization systems are trained to maximize the likelihood of human-written summaries and have achieved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Jiaao Chen , Mohan Dodda , Diyi Yang

High-quality dialogue-summary paired data is expensive to produce and domain-sensitive, making abstractive dialogue summarization a challenging task. In this work, we propose the first unsupervised abstractive dialogue summarization model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Xinyuan Zhang , Ruiyi Zhang , Manzil Zaheer , Amr Ahmed

Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) models have made significant progress in recent years. However, previous studies primarily focus on datasets written by annotators, which has resulted in a gap between academic research and real-world spoken…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Shuzheng Si , Wentao Ma , Haoyu Gao , Yuchuan Wu , Ting-En Lin , Yinpei Dai , Hangyu Li , Rui Yan , Fei Huang , Yongbin Li

Dialogue summarization aims to distill the core meaning of a conversation into a concise text. This is crucial for reducing the complexity and noise inherent in dialogue-heavy applications. While recent approaches typically train language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Mohamed Imed Eddine Ghebriout , Gaël Guibon , Ivan Lerner , Emmanuel Vincent