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Exploring the tremendous amount of data efficiently to make a decision, similar to answering a complicated question, is challenging with many real-world application scenarios. In this context, automatic summarization has substantial…

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Abstractive summarization typically relies on large collections of paired articles and summaries. However, in many cases, parallel data is scarce and costly to obtain. We develop an abstractive summarization system that relies only on large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Nikola I. Nikolov , Richard H. R. Hahnloser

Opinion summarization is the automatic creation of text reflecting subjective information expressed in multiple documents, such as user reviews of a product. The task is practically important and has attracted a lot of attention. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Arthur Bražinskas , Mirella Lapata , Ivan Titov

Podcasts are spoken documents across a wide-range of genres and styles, with growing listenership across the world, and a rapidly lowering barrier to entry for both listeners and creators. The great strides in search and recommendation in…

Opinion summarization is the task of automatically generating summaries for a set of reviews about a specific target (e.g., a movie or a product). Since the number of reviews for each target can be prohibitively large, neural network-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Reinald Kim Amplayo , Mirella Lapata

Speech summarization has become an essential tool for efficiently managing and accessing the growing volume of spoken and audiovisual content. However, despite its increasing importance, speech summarization remains loosely defined. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Fabian Retkowski , Maike Züfle , Andreas Sudmann , Dinah Pfau , Shinji Watanabe , Jan Niehues , Alexander Waibel

Podcasts have become daily companions for half a billion users. Given the enormous amount of podcast content available, highlights provide a valuable signal that helps viewers get the gist of an episode and decide if they want to invest in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Younghan Park , Anuj Diwan , David Harwath , Eunsol Choi

We present a novel summarization framework for reviews of products and services by selecting informative and concise text segments from the reviews. Our method consists of two major steps. First, we identify five frequently occurring…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-11-26 Trung V. Nguyen , Alice H. Oh

Abstractive text summarization aims at compressing the information of a long source document into a rephrased, condensed summary. Despite advances in modeling techniques, abstractive summarization models still suffer from several key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Vidhisha Balachandran , Artidoro Pagnoni , Jay Yoon Lee , Dheeraj Rajagopal , Jaime Carbonell , Yulia Tsvetkov

Customer reviews are vital for making purchasing decisions in the Information Age. Such reviews can be automatically summarized to provide the user with an overview of opinions. In this tutorial, we present various aspects of opinion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Reinald Kim Amplayo , Arthur Bražinskas , Yoshi Suhara , Xiaolan Wang , Bing Liu

Opinion summarisation aims to summarise the salient information and opinions presented in documents such as product reviews, discussion forums, and social media texts into short summaries that enable users to effectively understand the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Nannan Huang , Haytham Fayek , Xiuzhen Zhang

Rapidly growing online podcast archives contain diverse content on a wide range of topics. These archives form an important resource for entertainment and professional use, but their value can only be realized if users can rapidly and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Ben Carterette , Rosie Jones , Gareth F. Jones , Maria Eskevich , Sravana Reddy , Ann Clifton , Yongze Yu , Jussi Karlgren , Ian Soboroff

Listeners of long-form talk-audio content, such as podcast episodes, often find it challenging to understand the overall structure and locate relevant sections. A practical solution is to divide episodes into chapters--semantically coherent…

Establishing a good information retrieval system in popular mediums of entertainment is a quickly growing area of investigation for companies and researchers alike. We delve into the domain of information retrieval for podcasts. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Abheesht Sharma , Harshit Pandey

A system that could reliably identify and sum up the most important points of a conversation would be valuable in a wide variety of real-world contexts, from business meetings to medical consultations to customer service calls. Recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Virgile Rennard , Guokan Shang , Julie Hunter , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Millions of people listen to podcasts, audio stories, and lectures, but editing speech remains tedious and time-consuming. Creators remove unnecessary words, cut tangential discussions, and even re-record speech to make recordings concise…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Karim Benharrak , Puyuan Peng , Amy Pavel

Speech-to-text (S2T) summarization is a time-saving technique for filtering and keeping up with the broadcast news uploaded online on a daily basis. The rise of large language models from deep learning with impressive text generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Raul Monteiro , Diogo Pernes

Abstractive summarization models are typically pre-trained on large amounts of generic texts, then fine-tuned on tens or hundreds of thousands of annotated samples. However, in opinion summarization, large annotated datasets of reviews…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Arthur Bražinskas , Ramesh Nallapati , Mohit Bansal , Markus Dreyer

Automatic summarization techniques on meeting conversations developed so far have been primarily extractive, resulting in poor summaries. To improve this, we propose an approach to generate abstractive summaries by fusing important content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-25 Siddhartha Banerjee , Prasenjit Mitra , Kazunari Sugiyama

This paper proposes a text summarization approach for factual reports using a deep learning model. This approach consists of three phases: feature extraction, feature enhancement, and summary generation, which work together to assimilate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Sukriti Verma , Vagisha Nidhi