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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

Data-driven approaches to sequence-to-sequence modelling have been successfully applied to short text summarization of news articles. Such models are typically trained on input-summary pairs consisting of only a single or a few sentences,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Nikola I. Nikolov , Michael Pfeiffer , Richard H. R. Hahnloser

Text summarization is a fundamental task in natural language processing (NLP), and the information explosion has made long-document processing increasingly demanding, making summarization essential. Existing research mainly focuses on model…

Recently abstractive spoken language summarization raises emerging research interest, and neural sequence-to-sequence approaches have brought significant performance improvement. However, summarizing long meeting transcripts remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Zhengyuan Liu , Nancy F. Chen

One of the most pressing issues that have arisen due to the rapid growth of the Internet is known as information overloading. Simplifying the relevant information in the form of a summary will assist many people because the material on any…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Divakar Yadav , Jalpa Desai , Arun Kumar Yadav

In this work, we aim at developing an extractive summarizer in the multi-document setting. We implement a rank based sentence selection using continuous vector representations along with key-phrases. Furthermore, we propose a model to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Mir Tafseer Nayeem , Yllias Chali

This paper presents novel prompting techniques to improve the performance of automatic summarization systems for scientific articles. Scientific article summarization is highly challenging due to the length and complexity of these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Aldan Creo , Manuel Lama , Juan C. Vidal

This paper creates a paradigm shift with regard to the way we build neural extractive summarization systems. Instead of following the commonly used framework of extracting sentences individually and modeling the relationship between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Ming Zhong , Pengfei Liu , Yiran Chen , Danqing Wang , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

The task of multi-document summarization (MDS) aims at models that, given multiple documents as input, are able to generate a summary that combines disperse information, originally spread across these documents. Accordingly, it is expected…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Ruben Wolhandler , Arie Cattan , Ori Ernst , Ido Dagan

We propose a new sentence simplification task (Split-and-Rephrase) where the aim is to split a complex sentence into a meaning preserving sequence of shorter sentences. Like sentence simplification, splitting-and-rephrasing has the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Shashi Narayan , Claire Gardent , Shay B. Cohen , Anastasia Shimorina

Plan-guided summarization attempts to reduce hallucinations in small language models (SLMs) by grounding generated summaries to the source text, typically by targeting fine-grained details such as dates or named entities. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Matt Grenander , Siddharth Varia , Paula Czarnowska , Yogarshi Vyas , Kishaloy Halder , Bonan Min

Cross-lingual text summarization aims at generating a document summary in one language given input in another language. It is a practically important but under-explored task, primarily due to the dearth of available data. Existing methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Zi-Yi Dou , Sachin Kumar , Yulia Tsvetkov

Extractive summarization aims at selecting a set of indicative sentences from a source document as a summary that can express the major theme of the document. A general consensus on extractive summarization is that both relevance and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-01-21 Kuan-Yu Chen , Shih-Hung Liu , Berlin Chen , Hsin-Min Wang

Multi-document summarization (MDS) generates a summary from a document set. Each document in a set describes topic-relevant concepts, while per document also has its unique contents. However, the document specificity receives little…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Congbo Ma , Wei Emma Zhang , Hu Wang , Haojie Zhuang , Mingyu Guo

Text summarization is a downstream natural language processing (NLP) task that challenges the understanding and generation capabilities of language models. Considerable progress has been made in automatically summarizing short texts, such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Guang Lu , Sylvia B. Larcher , Tu Tran

In this paper, we propose a method for document summarization using auxiliary information. This approach effectively summarizes descriptions related to specific images, tables, and appendices within lengthy texts. Our experiments…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Pengpeng Li , Tingmin Li , Jingyuan Wang , Boyuan Wang , Yang Yang

Dialogue summarization aims to condense the original dialogue into a shorter version covering salient information, which is a crucial way to reduce dialogue data overload. Recently, the promising achievements in both dialogue systems and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Xiachong Feng , Xiaocheng Feng , Bing Qin

Existing multi-document summarization approaches produce a uniform summary for all users without considering individuals' interests, which is highly impractical. Making a user-specific summary is a challenging task as it requires: i)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Samira Ghodratnama , Mehrdad Zakershahrak

Abstractive summarization of scientific papers has always been a research focus, yet existing methods face two main challenges. First, most summarization models rely on Encoder-Decoder architectures that treat papers as sequences of words,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Tong Bao , Heng Zhang , Chengzhi Zhang

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