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Summarizing content contributed by individuals can be challenging, because people make different lexical choices even when describing the same events. However, there remains a significant need to summarize such content. Examples include the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Wencan Luo , Fei Liu , Zitao Liu , Diane Litman

It has always been a rather tough task to communicate with someone possessing a hearing impairment. One of the most tested ways to establish such a communication is through the use of sign based languages. However, not many people are aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Sharanya Mukherjee , Md Hishaam Akhtar , Kannadasan R

Visual cues such as structure, emphasis, and icons play an important role in efficient information foraging by sighted individuals and make for a pleasurable reading experience. Blind, low-vision and other print-disabled individuals miss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Peya Mowar , Tanuja Ganu , Saikat Guha

Text Summarization is recognised as one of the NLP downstream tasks and it has been extensively investigated in recent years. It can assist people with perceiving the information rapidly from the Internet, including news articles, social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Guan Wang , Weihua Li , Edmund Lai , Jianhua Jiang

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

Automatic text summarization tools help users in biomedical domain to acquire their intended information from various textual resources more efficiently. Some of the biomedical text summarization systems put the basis of their sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Milad Moradi , Nasser Ghadiri

Neural code summarization leverages deep learning models to automatically generate brief natural language summaries of code snippets. The development of Transformer models has led to extensive use of attention during model design. While…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Yifan Zhang , Jiliang Li , Zachary Karas , Aakash Bansal , Toby Jia-Jun Li , Collin McMillan , Kevin Leach , Yu Huang

Text summarizing is a critical Natural Language Processing (NLP) task with applications ranging from information retrieval to content generation. Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable promise in generating fluent abstractive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Colleen Gilhuly , Haleh Shahzad

Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) has enabled the automated processing of lengthy documents even without supervised training on a task-specific dataset. Yet, their zero-shot performance in complex tasks as opposed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-12 WonJin Yoon , Boyu Ren , Spencer Thomas , Chanhwi Kim , Guergana Savova , Mei-Hua Hall , Timothy Miller

Text summarization is a fundamental task in natural language processing that aims to condense large amounts of textual information into concise and coherent summaries. With the exponential growth of content and the need to extract key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Öykü Berfin Mercan , Sena Nur Cavsak , Aysu Deliahmetoglu , Senem Tanberk

Automatic text summarization has been widely studied as an important task in natural language processing. Traditionally, various feature engineering and machine learning based systems have been proposed for extractive as well as abstractive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Sayar Ghosh Roy , Nikhil Pinnaparaju , Risubh Jain , Manish Gupta , Vasudeva Varma

We present a novel divide-and-conquer method for the neural summarization of long documents. Our method exploits the discourse structure of the document and uses sentence similarity to split the problem into an ensemble of smaller…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Alexios Gidiotis , Grigorios Tsoumakas

The dynamic propagation of social media has broadened the reach of financial advisory content through podcast videos, yet extracting insights from lengthy, multimodal segments (30-40 minutes) remains challenging. We introduce FASTER…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Sarmistha Das , R E Zera Marveen Lyngkhoi , Sriparna Saha , Alka Maurya

The increasing demand for efficient summarization tools in resource-constrained environments highlights the need for effective solutions. While large language models (LLMs) deliver superior summarization quality, their high computational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Borui Xu , Yao Chen , Zeyi Wen , Weiguo Liu , Bingsheng He

Audio descriptions make videos accessible to those who cannot see them by describing visual content in audio. Producing audio descriptions is challenging due to the synchronous nature of the audio description that must fit into gaps of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Amy Pavel , Gabriel Reyes , Jeffrey P. Bigham

In inference problems, we often have domain knowledge which allows us to define summary statistics that capture most of the information content in a dataset. In this paper, we present a hybrid approach, where such physics-based summaries…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-24 T. Lucas Makinen , Alan Heavens , Natalia Porqueres , Tom Charnock , Axel Lapel , Benjamin D. Wandelt

People who are blind or have low vision (BLV) encounter numerous challenges in their daily lives and work. To support them, various haptic assistive tools have been developed. Despite these advancements, the effective utilization of these…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Chutian Jiang , Emily Kuang , Mingming Fan

The parallelism of Transformer-based models comes at the cost of their input max-length. Some studies proposed methods to overcome this limitation, but none of them reported the effectiveness of summarization as an alternative. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Mirza Alim Mutasodirin , Radityo Eko Prasojo

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 the rapidly evolving landscape of digital content, the task of summarizing multimedia documents, which encompass textual, visual, and auditory elements, presents intricate challenges. These challenges include extracting pertinent…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Azze-Eddine Maredj , Madjid Sadallah