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A law practitioner has to go through numerous lengthy legal case proceedings for their practices of various categories, such as land dispute, corruption, etc. Hence, it is important to summarize these documents, and ensure that summaries…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Ankan Mullick , Abhilash Nandy , Manav Nitin Kapadnis , Sohan Patnaik , R Raghav , Roshni Kar

Although transformer-based models have shown strong performance in word- and sentence-level tasks, effectively representing long documents, especially in fields like law and medicine, remains difficult. Sparse attention mechanisms can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Waheed Ahmed Abro , Zied Bouraoui

This work presents a new approach to unsupervised abstractive summarization based on maximizing a combination of coverage and fluency for a given length constraint. It introduces a novel method that encourages the inclusion of key terms…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Philippe Laban , Andrew Hsi , John Canny , Marti A. Hearst

Text summarization is an approach for identifying important information present within text documents. This computational technique aims to generate shorter versions of the source text, by including only the relevant and salient information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Kalliath Abdul Rasheed Issam , Shivam Patel , Subalalitha C. N

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

We carry out experiments with deep learning models of summarization across the domains of news, personal stories, meetings, and medical articles in order to understand how content selection is performed. We find that many sophisticated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Chris Kedzie , Kathleen McKeown , Hal Daume

Reinforcement learning with evaluation metrics as rewards is widely used to enhance specific capabilities of language models. However, for tasks such as factually consistent summarisation, existing metrics remain underdeveloped, limiting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuxuan Ye , Raul Santos-Rodriguez , Edwin Simpson

Video summarization aims at choosing parts of a video that narrate a story as close as possible to the original one. Most of the existing video summarization approaches focus on hand-crafted labels. As the number of videos grows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Ivan Sosnovik , Artem Moskalev , Cees Kaandorp , Arnold Smeulders

Recent Transformer-based summarization models have provided a promising approach to abstractive summarization. They go beyond sentence selection and extractive strategies to deal with more complicated tasks such as novel word generation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Sajad Sotudeh , Hanieh Deilamsalehy , Franck Dernoncourt , Nazli Goharian

In recent times, data is growing rapidly in every domain such as news, social media, banking, education, etc. Due to the excessiveness of data, there is a need of automatic summarizer which will be capable to summarize the data especially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Santosh Kumar Bharti , Korra Sathya Babu

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

Abstractive text summarization is integral to the Big Data era, which demands advanced methods to turn voluminous and often long text data into concise but coherent and informative summaries for efficient human consumption. Despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Jianbin Shen , Christy Jie Liang , Junyu Xuan

Existing models for extractive summarization are usually trained from scratch with a cross-entropy loss, which does not explicitly capture the global context at the document level. In this paper, we aim to improve this task by introducing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Hong Wang , Xin Wang , Wenhan Xiong , Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Shiyu Chang , William Yang Wang

Generating unbiased summaries in real-world settings such as political perspective summarization remains a crucial application of Large Language Models (LLMs). Yet, existing evaluation frameworks rely on traditional metrics for measuring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Narutatsu Ri , Nicholas Deas , Kathleen McKeown

With the surge in user-generated textual information, there has been a recent increase in the use of summarization algorithms for providing an overview of the extensive content. Traditional metrics for evaluation of these algorithms (e.g.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Anurag Shandilya , Abhisek Dash , Abhijnan Chakraborty , Kripabandhu Ghosh , Saptarshi Ghosh

Pre-trained language models are increasingly being used in multi-document summarization tasks. However, these models need large-scale corpora for pre-training and are domain-dependent. Other non-neural unsupervised summarization approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Ran Liu , Ming Liu , Min Yu , Jianguo Jiang , Gang Li , Dan Zhang , Jingyuan Li , Xiang Meng , Weiqing Huang

We propose a simple method for post-processing the outputs of a text summarization system in order to refine its overall quality. Our approach is to train text-to-text rewriting models to correct information redundancy errors that may arise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Nikola I. Nikolov , Alessandro Calmanovici , Richard H. R. Hahnloser

Video summarization aims at generating a compact yet representative visual summary that conveys the essence of the original video. The advantage of unsupervised approaches is that they do not require human annotations to learn the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Hussain Kanafani , Junaid Ahmed Ghauri , Sherzod Hakimov , Ralph Ewerth

We propose a general framework for topic-specific summarization of large text corpora, and illustrate how it can be used for analysis in two quite different contexts: an OSHA database of fatality and catastrophe reports (to facilitate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Luke Miratrix , Robin Ackerman

We develop an abstractive summarization framework independent of labeled data for multiple heterogeneous documents. Unlike existing multi-document summarization methods, our framework processes documents telling different stories instead of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Ning Wang , Han Liu , Diego Klabjan