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The availability of large-scale datasets has driven the development of neural models that create summaries from single documents, for generic purposes. When using a summarization system, users often have specific intents with various…

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Controlled abstractive summarization focuses on producing condensed versions of a source article to cover specific aspects by shifting the distribution of generated text towards a desired style, e.g., a set of topics. Subsequently, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Seyed Ali Bahrainian , Martin Jaggi , Carsten Eickhoff

To broaden the dissemination of scientific knowledge to diverse audiences, it is desirable for scientific document summarization systems to simultaneously control multiple attributes such as length and empirical focus. However, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yixi Ding , Jiaying Wu , Tongyao Zhu , Yanxia Qin , Qian Liu , Min-Yen Kan

Memory-efficient large language models are good at refining text input for better readability. However, controllability is a matter of concern when it comes to text generation tasks with long inputs, such as multi-document summarization. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Litton J Kurisinkel , Nancy F chen

The scarcity of comprehensive up-to-date studies on evaluation metrics for text summarization and the lack of consensus regarding evaluation protocols continue to inhibit progress. We address the existing shortcomings of summarization…

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Scientific extreme summarization (TLDR) aims to form ultra-short summaries of scientific papers. Previous efforts on curating scientific TLDR datasets failed to scale up due to the heavy human annotation and domain expertise required. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Yuning Mao , Ming Zhong , Jiawei Han

This study presents a controllable abstract summary generation method for large language models based on prompt engineering. To address the issues of summary quality and controllability in traditional methods, we design a multi-stage prompt…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Xiangchen Song , Yuchen Liu , Yaxuan Luan , Jinxu Guo , Xiaofan Guo

Prompts with different control signals (e.g., length, keywords, etc.) can be used to control text summarization. When control signals are available, they can control the properties of generated summaries and potentially improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Yubo Zhang , Xingxing Zhang , Xun Wang , Si-qing Chen , Furu Wei

Abstractive summarization at controllable lengths is a challenging task in natural language processing. It is even more challenging for domains where limited training data is available or scenarios in which the length of the summary is not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Ritesh Sarkhel , Moniba Keymanesh , Arnab Nandi , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

With the advent of large language models, methods for abstractive summarization have made great strides, creating potential for use in applications to aid knowledge workers processing unwieldy document collections. One such setting is the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Zejiang Shen , Kyle Lo , Lauren Yu , Nathan Dahlberg , Margo Schlanger , Doug Downey

Summarizing texts is not a straightforward task. Before even considering text summarization, one should determine what kind of summary is expected. How much should the information be compressed? Is it relevant to reformulate or should the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Paul Tardy , David Janiszek , Yannick Estève , Vincent Nguyen

Current approaches for text summarization are predominantly automatic, with rather limited space for human intervention and control over the process. In this paper, we introduce SummHelper, a 2-phase summarization assistant designed to…

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Community Question Answering (CQA) fora such as Stack Overflow and Yahoo! Answers contain a rich resource of answers to a wide range of community-based questions. Each question thread can receive a large number of answers with different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Alexander R. Fabbri , Xiaojian Wu , Srini Iyer , Haoran Li , Mona Diab

Neural abstractive summarization models are flexible and can produce coherent summaries, but they are sometimes unfaithful and can be difficult to control. While previous studies attempt to provide different types of guidance to control the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Zi-Yi Dou , Pengfei Liu , Hiroaki Hayashi , Zhengbao Jiang , Graham Neubig

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

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

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

In this paper, we present RTSUM, an unsupervised summarization framework that utilizes relation triples as the basic unit for summarization. Given an input document, RTSUM first selects salient relation triples via multi-level salience…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Seonglae Cho , Yonggi Cho , HoonJae Lee , Myungha Jang , Jinyoung Yeo , Dongha Lee

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…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Samira Ghodratnama , Mehrdad Zakershahrak , Fariborz Sobhanmanesh

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in abstractive summarization tasks. However, their ability to precisely control summary attributes (e.g., length or topic) remains underexplored, limiting their…

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