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Multi-document summarization is a process of automatic generation of a compressed version of the given collection of documents. Recently, the graph-based models and ranking algorithms have been actively investigated by the extractive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-06-02 Ercan Canhasi

We propose a neural multi-document summarization (MDS) system that incorporates sentence relation graphs. We employ a Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) on the relation graphs, with sentence embeddings obtained from Recurrent Neural Networks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Michihiro Yasunaga , Rui Zhang , Kshitijh Meelu , Ayush Pareek , Krishnan Srinivasan , Dragomir Radev

Multi-document summarization (MDS) aims to generate a summary for a number of related documents. We propose HGSUM, an MDS model that extends an encoder-decoder architecture, to incorporate a heterogeneous graph to represent different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Miao Li , Jianzhong Qi , Jey Han Lau

We investigate the problem of reader-aware multi-document summarization (RA-MDS) and introduce a new dataset for this problem. To tackle RA-MDS, we extend a variational auto-encodes (VAEs) based MDS framework by jointly considering news…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Piji Li , Lidong Bing , Wai Lam

Developed so far, multi-document summarization has reached its bottleneck due to the lack of sufficient training data and diverse categories of documents. Text classification just makes up for these deficiencies. In this paper, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Ziqiang Cao , Wenjie Li , Sujian Li , Furu Wei

Automatic document summarization aims to produce a concise summary covering the input document's salient information. Within a report document, the salient information can be scattered in the textual and non-textual content. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Shuaiqi Liu , Jiannong Cao , Ruosong Yang , Zhiyuan Wen

Medical multi-document summarization (MDS) is a complex task that requires effectively managing cross-document relationships. This paper investigates whether incorporating hierarchical structures in the inputs of MDS can improve a model's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Yi-Li Hsu , Katelyn X. Mei , Lucy Lu Wang

Recent advances in test-time scaling have shown promising results in improving Large Language Model (LLM) performance through strategic computation allocation during inference. While this approach has demonstrated strong improvements in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Juntai Cao , Xiang Zhang , Raymond Li , Chuyuan Li , Chenyu You , Shafiq Joty , Giuseppe Carenini

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have led to new summarization strategies, offering an extensive toolkit for extracting important information. However, these approaches are frequently limited by their reliance on isolated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Pranav Janjani , Mayank Palan , Sarvesh Shirude , Ninad Shegokar , Sunny Kumar , Faruk Kazi

In the rapidly evolving digital era, there is an increasing demand for concise information as individuals seek to distil key insights from various sources. Recent attention from researchers on Multi-document Summarisation (MDS) has resulted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Kushan Hewapathirana , Nisansa de Silva , C. D. Athuraliya

A key challenge in Multi-Document Summarization (MDS) is effectively integrating information from multiple sources while maintaining coherence and topical relevance. While Large Language Models have shown impressive results in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Chuyuan Li , Austin Xu , Shafiq Joty , Giuseppe Carenini

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

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

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

Multi-document summarization entails producing concise synopses of collections of inputs. For some applications, the synopsis should accurately synthesize inputs with respect to a key aspect, e.g., a synopsis of film reviews written about a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Jay DeYoung , Stephanie C. Martinez , Iain J. Marshall , Byron C. Wallace

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

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

To generate summaries that include multiple aspects or topics for text documents, most approaches use clustering or topic modeling to group relevant sentences and then generate a summary for each group. These approaches struggle to optimize…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Xiaobo Guo , Jay Desai , Srinivasan H. Sengamedu

This paper is aimed at evaluating state-of-the-art models for Multi-document Summarization (MDS) on different types of datasets in various domains and investigating the limitations of existing models to determine future research directions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Kushan Hewapathirana , Nisansa de Silva , C. D. Athuraliya

We present a multi-document summarizer, called MEAD, which generates summaries using cluster centroids produced by a topic detection and tracking system. We also describe two new techniques, based on sentence utility and subsumption, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Dragomir R. Radev , Hongyan Jing , Malgorzata Budzikowska