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The availability of a vast array of research papers in any area of study, necessitates the need of automated summarisation systems that can present the key research conducted and their corresponding findings. Scientific paper summarisation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Grishma Sharma , Aditi Paretkar , Deepak Sharma

We study the problem of generating abstractive summaries for opinionated text. We propose an attention-based neural network model that is able to absorb information from multiple text units to construct informative, concise, and fluent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-10 Lu Wang , Wang Ling

In this paper, we propose an adversarial process for abstractive text summarization, in which we simultaneously train a generative model G and a discriminative model D. In particular, we build the generator G as an agent of reinforcement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Linqing Liu , Yao Lu , Min Yang , Qiang Qu , Jia Zhu , Hongyan Li

Inspired by how humans summarize long documents, we propose an accurate and fast summarization model that first selects salient sentences and then rewrites them abstractively (i.e., compresses and paraphrases) to generate a concise overall…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Yen-Chun Chen , Mohit Bansal

In this paper, we present a model for generating summaries of text documents with respect to a query. This is known as query-based summarization. We adapt an existing dataset of news article summaries for the task and train a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Johan Hasselqvist , Niklas Helmertz , Mikael Kågebäck

While diffusion models excel at conditional generating high-quality images, prior works in discrete diffusion models were not evaluated on conditional long-text generation. In this work, we address the limitations of prior discrete…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Do Huu Dat , Do Duc Anh , Anh Tuan Luu , Wray Buntine

We present deep communicating agents in an encoder-decoder architecture to address the challenges of representing a long document for abstractive summarization. With deep communicating agents, the task of encoding a long text is divided…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Asli Celikyilmaz , Antoine Bosselut , Xiaodong He , Yejin Choi

Abstractive text summarization aims to shorten long text documents into a human readable form that contains the most important facts from the original document. However, the level of actual abstraction as measured by novel phrases that do…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Wojciech Kryściński , Romain Paulus , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

Analyzing long text data such as customer call transcripts is a cost-intensive and tedious task. Machine learning methods, namely Transformers, are leveraged to model agent-customer interactions. Unfortunately, Transformers adhere to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Annamalai Senthilnathan , Kristjan Arumae , Mohammed Khalilia , Zhengzheng Xing , Aaron R. Colak

The quadratic complexity of standard self-attention severely limits the application of Transformer-based models to long-context tasks. While efficient Transformer variants exist, they often require architectural changes and costly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Jiangshu Du , Wenpeng Yin , Philip Yu

Recently, Transformer-based models have been proven effective in the abstractive summarization task by creating fluent and informative summaries. Nevertheless, these models still suffer from the short-range dependency problem, causing them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Thong Nguyen , Anh Tuan Luu , Truc Lu , Tho Quan

Extractive summarization for long documents is challenging due to the extended structured input context. The long-distance sentence dependency hinders cross-sentence relations modeling, the critical step of extractive summarization. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Haopeng Zhang , Xiao Liu , Jiawei Zhang

We propose a new framework for abstractive text summarization based on a sequence-to-sequence oriented encoder-decoder model equipped with a deep recurrent generative decoder (DRGN). Latent structure information implied in the target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Piji Li , Wai Lam , Lidong Bing , Zihao Wang

Attention-based neural abstractive summarization systems equipped with copy mechanisms have shown promising results. Despite this success, it has been noticed that such a system generates a summary by mostly, if not entirely, copying over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Noah Weber , Leena Shekhar , Niranjan Balasubramanian , Kyunghyun Cho

Pre-trained sequence-to-sequence (seq-to-seq) models have significantly improved the accuracy of several language generation tasks, including abstractive summarization. Although the fluency of abstractive summarization has been greatly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Itsumi Saito , Kyosuke Nishida , Kosuke Nishida , Junji Tomita

A quality abstractive summary should not only copy salient source texts as summaries but should also tend to generate new conceptual words to express concrete details. Inspired by the popular pointer generator sequence-to-sequence model,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Wang Wenbo , Gao Yang , Huang Heyan , Zhou Yuxiang

A notable challenge in Multi-Document Summarization (MDS) is the extremely-long length of the input. In this paper, we present an extract-then-abstract Transformer framework to overcome the problem. Specifically, we leverage pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Yun-Zhu Song , Yi-Syuan Chen , Hong-Han Shuai

As human society transitions into the information age, reduction in our attention span is a contingency, and people who spend time reading lengthy news articles are decreasing rapidly and the need for succinct information is higher than…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Aditya Saxena , Ashutosh Ranjan

Abstractive text summarization is a challenging task, and one need to design a mechanism to effectively extract salient information from the source text and then generate a summary. A parsing process of the source text contains critical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Haiyang Xu , Yun Wang , Kun Han , Baochang Ma , Junwen Chen , Xiangang Li

Text summarization aims to extract essential information from a piece of text and transform the text into a concise version. Existing unsupervised abstractive summarization models leverage recurrent neural networks framework while the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Ziyi Yang , Chenguang Zhu , Robert Gmyr , Michael Zeng , Xuedong Huang , Eric Darve