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We argue that disentangling content selection from the budget used to cover salient content improves the performance and applicability of abstractive summarizers. Our method, FactorSum, does this disentanglement by factorizing summarization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Marcio Fonseca , Yftah Ziser , Shay B. Cohen

In today's data and information-rich world, summarization techniques are essential in harnessing vast text to extract key information and enhance decision-making and efficiency. In particular, topic-focused summarization is important due to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Wenchuan Mu , Kwan Hui Lim

Despite significant progress, state-of-the-art abstractive summarization methods are still prone to hallucinate content inconsistent with the source document. In this paper, we propose Constrained Abstractive Summarization (CAS), a general…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Yuning Mao , Xiang Ren , Heng Ji , Jiawei Han

Due to its promise to alleviate information overload, text summarization has attracted the attention of many researchers. However, it has remained a serious challenge. Here, we first prove empirical limits on the recall (and F1-scores) of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Rakesh Verma , Daniel Lee

Short text clustering is a known use case in the text analytics community. When the structure and content falls in the natural language domain e.g. Twitter posts or instant messages, then natural language techniques can be used, provided…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Thanasis Schoinas , Benjamin Guinard , Diba Esbati , Richard Chalk

Automatic text summarization aims to cut down readers time and cognitive effort by reducing the content of a text document without compromising on its essence. Ergo, informativeness is the prime attribute of document summary generated by an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Alka Khurana , Vasudha Bhatnagar

As academic literature proliferates, traditional review methods are increasingly challenged by the sheer volume and diversity of available research. This article presents a study that aims to address these challenges by enhancing the…

Large language models (LLMs) excel in tasks requiring processing and interpretation of input text. Abstract screening is a labour-intensive component of systematic review involving repetitive application of inclusion and exclusion criteria…

Huge volumes of textual information has been produced every single day. In order to organize and understand such large datasets, in recent years, summarization techniques have become popular. These techniques aims at finding relevant,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Jorge V. Tohalino , Diego R. Amancio

Text summarization plays a crucial role in natural language processing by condensing large volumes of text into concise and coherent summaries. As digital content continues to grow rapidly and the demand for effective information retrieval…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Tohida Rehman , Soumabha Ghosh , Kuntal Das , Souvik Bhattacharjee , Debarshi Kumar Sanyal , Samiran Chattopadhyay

Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to advance natural language processing with their ability to generate human-like text across a range of tasks. Despite the remarkable success of LLMs in Natural Language Processing (NLP), their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Walid Mohamed Aly , Taysir Hassan A. Soliman , Amr Mohamed AbdelAziz

When summarizing a collection of views, arguments or opinions on some topic, it is often desirable not only to extract the most salient points, but also to quantify their prevalence. Work on multi-document summarization has traditionally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Roy Bar-Haim , Yoav Kantor , Lilach Eden , Roni Friedman , Dan Lahav , Noam Slonim

While recent work in abstractive summarization has resulted in higher scores in automatic metrics, there is little understanding on how these systems combine information taken from multiple document sentences. In this paper, we analyze the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Logan Lebanoff , John Muchovej , Franck Dernoncourt , Doo Soon Kim , Seokhwan Kim , Walter Chang , Fei Liu

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

Like humans, document summarization models can interpret a document's contents in a number of ways. Unfortunately, the neural models of today are largely black boxes that provide little explanation of how or why they generated a summary in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Wang Haonan , Gao Yang , Bai Yu , Mirella Lapata , Huang Heyan

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

Analysts require attribution, as nothing can be reported without knowing the source of the information. In this paper, we will focus on automatic methods for attribution, linking each sentence in the summary to a portion of the source text,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Violet B , John M. Conroy , Sean Lynch , Danielle M , Neil P. Molino , Aaron Wiechmann , Julia S. Yang

Unsupervised extractive summarization aims to extract salient sentences from a document as the summary without labeled data. Recent literatures mostly research how to leverage sentence similarity to rank sentences in the order of salience.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Shichao Sun , Ruifeng Yuan , Wenjie Li , Sujian Li

Extractive methods have been proven effective in automatic document summarization. Previous works perform this task by identifying informative contents at sentence level. However, it is unclear whether performing extraction at sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Qingyu Zhou , Furu Wei , Ming Zhou

This study presents a controllable abstract summary generation method for large language models based on prompt engineering. To address the issues of summary quality and controllability in traditional methods, we design a multi-stage prompt…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Xiangchen Song , Yuchen Liu , Yaxuan Luan , Jinxu Guo , Xiaofan Guo