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Multi-document summarization (MDS) is the task of reflecting key points from any set of documents into a concise text paragraph. In the past, it has been used to aggregate news, tweets, product reviews, etc. from various sources. Owing to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Alvin Dey , Tanya Chowdhury , Yash Kumar Atri , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Cross-lingual summarization (XLS) aims to generate a summary in a target language different from the source language document. While large language models (LLMs) have shown promising zero-shot XLS performance, their few-shot capabilities on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Gyutae Park , Seojin Hwang , Hwanhee Lee

We present HowSumm, a novel large-scale dataset for the task of query-focused multi-document summarization (qMDS), which targets the use-case of generating actionable instructions from a set of sources. This use-case is different from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Odellia Boni , Guy Feigenblat , Guy Lev , Michal Shmueli-Scheuer , Benjamin Sznajder , David Konopnicki

Given a document and a target aspect (e.g., a topic of interest), aspect-based abstractive summarization attempts to generate a summary with respect to the aspect. Previous studies usually assume a small pre-defined set of aspects and fall…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Bowen Tan , Lianhui Qin , Eric P. Xing , Zhiting Hu

With more and more advanced data analysis techniques emerging, people will expect these techniques to be applied in more complex tasks and solve problems in our daily lives. Text Summarization is one of famous applications in Natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Chen Jia-Chen , Guillem Senabre , Allane Caron

Query-Focused Meeting Summarization (QFMS) aims to generate a summary of a given meeting transcript conditioned upon a query. The main challenges for QFMS are the long input text length and sparse query-relevant information in the meeting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Tiezheng Yu , Ziwei Ji , Pascale Fung

Most of existing extractive multi-document summarization (MDS) methods score each sentence individually and extract salient sentences one by one to compose a summary, which have two main drawbacks: (1) neglecting both the intra and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Moye Chen , Wei Li , Jiachen Liu , Xinyan Xiao , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Most existing video summarisation methods are based on either supervised or unsupervised learning. In this paper, we propose a reinforcement learning-based weakly supervised method that exploits easy-to-obtain, video-level category labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Kaiyang Zhou , Tao Xiang , Andrea Cavallaro

Conventional video summarization approaches based on reinforcement learning have the problem that the reward can only be received after the whole summary is generated. Such kind of reward is sparse and it makes reinforcement learning hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Yiyan Chen , Li Tao , Xueting Wang , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Evaluating multi-document summarization (MDS) quality is difficult. This is especially true in the case of MDS for biomedical literature reviews, where models must synthesize contradicting evidence reported across different documents. Prior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Lucy Lu Wang , Yulia Otmakhova , Jay DeYoung , Thinh Hung Truong , Bailey E. Kuehl , Erin Bransom , Byron C. Wallace

The emergence of structured databases for Question Answering (QA) systems has led to developing methods, in which the problem of learning the correct answer efficiently is based on a linking task between the constituents of the question and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Hamid Zafar , Maryam Tavakol , Jens Lehmann

Document summarization is a task to generate afluent, condensed summary for a document, andkeep important information. A cluster of documents serves as the input for multi-document summarizing (MDS), while the cluster summary serves as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Huu-Thin Nguyen , Tam Doan Thanh , Cam-Van Thi Nguyen

Providing visual summaries of scientific publications can increase information access for readers and thereby help deal with the exponential growth in the number of scientific publications. Nonetheless, efforts in providing visual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Shintaro Yamamoto , Anne Lauscher , Simone Paolo Ponzetto , Goran Glavaš , Shigeo Morishima

In the field of multi-document summarization (MDS), transformer-based models have demonstrated remarkable success, yet they suffer an input length limitation. Current methods apply truncation after the retrieval process to fit the context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Shiyin Tan , Jaeeon Park , Dongyuan Li , Renhe Jiang , Manabu Okumura

Meetings are a key component of human collaboration. As increasing numbers of meetings are recorded and transcribed, meeting summaries have become essential to remind those who may or may not have attended the meetings about the key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Ming Zhong , Da Yin , Tao Yu , Ahmad Zaidi , Mutethia Mutuma , Rahul Jha , Ahmed Hassan Awadallah , Asli Celikyilmaz , Yang Liu , Xipeng Qiu , Dragomir Radev

We propose a new MDS paradigm called reader-aware multi-document summarization (RA-MDS). Specifically, a set of reader comments associated with the news reports are also collected. The generated summaries from the reports for the event…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Piji Li , Lidong Bing , Wai Lam , Hang Li , Yi Liao

The core challenge faced by multi-document summarization is the complexity of relationships among documents and the presence of information redundancy. Graph clustering is an effective paradigm for addressing this issue, as it models the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Yongbing Zhang , Fang Nan , Shengxiang Gao , Yuxin Huang , Kaiwen Tan , Zhengtao Yu

Obtaining training data for multi-document summarization (MDS) is time consuming and resource-intensive, so recent neural models can only be trained for limited domains. In this paper, we propose SummPip: an unsupervised method for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Jinming Zhao , Ming Liu , Longxiang Gao , Yuan Jin , Lan Du , He Zhao , He Zhang , Gholamreza Haffari

Multi-document summarization (MDS) aims to compress the content in large document collections into short summaries and has important applications in story clustering for newsfeeds, presentation of search results, and timeline generation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Demian Gholipour Ghalandari , Chris Hokamp , Nghia The Pham , John Glover , Georgiana Ifrim

Synthetically created Cross-Lingual Summarisation (CLS) datasets are prone to include document-summary pairs where the reference summary is unfaithful to the corresponding document as it contains content not supported by the document (i.e.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Huajian Zhang , Laura Perez-Beltrachini