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Broad textual understanding and in-context learning require language models that utilize full document contexts. Due to the implementation challenges associated with directly training long-context models, many methods have been proposed for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Yi Lu , Jing Nathan Yan , Songlin Yang , Justin T. Chiu , Siyu Ren , Fei Yuan , Wenting Zhao , Zhiyong Wu , Alexander M. Rush

Most extractive summarization methods focus on the main body of the document from which sentences need to be extracted. However, the gist of the document may lie in side information, such as the title and image captions which are often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Shashi Narayan , Nikos Papasarantopoulos , Shay B. Cohen , Mirella Lapata

The query suggestion or auto-completion mechanisms help users to type less while interacting with a search engine. A basic approach that ranks suggestions according to their frequency in the query logs is suboptimal. Firstly, many candidate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-12-06 Eugene Kharitonov , Craig Macdonald , Pavel Serdyukov , Iadh Ounis

Models for question answering, dialogue agents, and summarization often interpret the meaning of a sentence in a rich context and use that meaning in a new context. Taking excerpts of text can be problematic, as key pieces may not be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Eunsol Choi , Jennimaria Palomaki , Matthew Lamm , Tom Kwiatkowski , Dipanjan Das , Michael Collins

Current neural network-based methods to the problem of document summarisation struggle when applied to datasets containing large inputs. In this paper we propose a new approach to the challenge of content-selection when dealing with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Maciej Zembrzuski , Saad Mahamood

In recent years, there has been a explosion in the amount of text data from a variety of sources. This volume of text is an invaluable source of information and knowledge which needs to be effectively summarized to be useful. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Mehdi Allahyari , Seyedamin Pouriyeh , Mehdi Assefi , Saeid Safaei , Elizabeth D. Trippe , Juan B. Gutierrez , Krys Kochut

Sentence scoring and sentence selection are two main steps in extractive document summarization systems. However, previous works treat them as two separated subtasks. In this paper, we present a novel end-to-end neural network framework for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Qingyu Zhou , Nan Yang , Furu Wei , Shaohan Huang , Ming Zhou , Tiejun Zhao

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

Aspect-based summarization has attracted significant attention for its ability to generate more fine-grained and user-aligned summaries. While most existing approaches assume a set of predefined aspects as input, real-world scenarios often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Yong-En Tian , Yu-Chien Tang , An-Zi Yen , Wen-Chih Peng

Automatic text summarization tools have a great impact on many fields, such as medicine, law, and scientific research in general. As information overload increases, automatic summaries allow handling the growing volume of documents, usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Augusto Villa-Monte , Laura Lanzarini , Aurelio F. Bariviera , José A. Olivas

Summarization datasets are often assembled either by scraping naturally occurring public-domain summaries -- which are nearly always in difficult-to-work-with technical domains -- or by using approximate heuristics to extract them from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Alex Wang , Richard Yuanzhe Pang , Angelica Chen , Jason Phang , Samuel R. Bowman

Developers spend much of their time reading and browsing source code, raising new opportunities for summarization methods. Indeed, modern code editors provide code folding, which allows one to selectively hide blocks of code. However this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Jaroslav Fowkes , Pankajan Chanthirasegaran , Razvan Ranca , Miltiadis Allamanis , Mirella Lapata , Charles Sutton

To automatically produce a brief yet expressive summary of a long video, an automatic algorithm should start by resembling the human process of summary generation. Prior work proposed supervised and unsupervised algorithms to train models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Mohamed Elfeki , Ali Borji

Code summarization generates brief natural language description given a source code snippet, while code retrieval fetches relevant source code given a natural language query. Since both tasks aim to model the association between natural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Wei Ye , Rui Xie , Jinglei Zhang , Tianxiang Hu , Xiaoyin Wang , Shikun Zhang

Text summarization aims at compressing long documents into a shorter form that conveys the most important parts of the original document. Despite increased interest in the community and notable research effort, progress on benchmark…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Wojciech Kryściński , Nitish Shirish Keskar , Bryan McCann , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

Long document summarization is an important and hard task in the field of natural language processing. A good performance of the long document summarization reveals the model has a decent understanding of the human language. Currently, most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Xinwei Du , Kailun Dong , Yuchen Zhang , Yongsheng Li , Ruei-Yu Tsay

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

Neural attention models have achieved significant improvements on many natural language processing tasks. However, the quadratic memory complexity of the self-attention module with respect to the input length hinders their applications in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Yixin Liu , Ansong Ni , Linyong Nan , Budhaditya Deb , Chenguang Zhu , Ahmed H. Awadallah , Dragomir Radev

Source code summarization aims at generating concise and clear natural language descriptions for programming languages. Well-written code summaries are beneficial for programmers to participate in the software development and maintenance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Zi Gong , Cuiyun Gao , Yasheng Wang , Wenchao Gu , Yun Peng , Zenglin Xu

Our analysis of large summarization datasets indicates that redundancy is a very serious problem when summarizing long documents. Yet, redundancy reduction has not been thoroughly investigated in neural summarization. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Wen Xiao , Giuseppe Carenini