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In this work, we aim at developing an extractive summarizer in the multi-document setting. We implement a rank based sentence selection using continuous vector representations along with key-phrases. Furthermore, we propose a model to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Mir Tafseer Nayeem , Yllias Chali

Long document summarization is an important and hard task in the field of natural language processing. A good performance of the long document summarization reveals the model has a decent understanding of the human language. Currently, most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Xinwei Du , Kailun Dong , Yuchen Zhang , Yongsheng Li , Ruei-Yu Tsay

Text summarization has been one of the most challenging areas of research in NLP. Much effort has been made to overcome this challenge by using either the abstractive or extractive methods. Extractive methods are more popular, due to their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Hosein Rezaei , Seyed Amid Moeinzadeh , Azar Shahgholian , Mohamad Saraee

High-quality scientific extreme summary (TLDR) facilitates effective science communication. How do large language models (LLMs) perform in generating them? How are LLM-generated summaries different from those written by human experts?…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Zhuoqi Lyu , Qing Ke

Text summarization is a downstream natural language processing (NLP) task that challenges the understanding and generation capabilities of language models. Considerable progress has been made in automatically summarizing short texts, such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Guang Lu , Sylvia B. Larcher , Tu Tran

Retrieving documents and prepending them in-context at inference time improves performance of language model (LMs) on a wide range of tasks. However, these documents, often spanning hundreds of words, make inference substantially more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Fangyuan Xu , Weijia Shi , Eunsol Choi

Automatic text summarization has experienced substantial progress in recent years. With this progress, the question has arisen whether the types of summaries that are typically generated by automatic summarization models align with users'…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Maartje ter Hoeve , Julia Kiseleva , Maarten de Rijke

Research on automated text summarization relies heavily on human and automatic evaluation. While recent work on human evaluation mainly adopted intrinsic evaluation methods, judging the generic quality of text summaries, e.g.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Xiao Pu , Mingqi Gao , Xiaojun Wan

Summarization of legal judgments poses a heavy cognitive burden on law practitioners due to the complexity of the language, context-sensitive legal jargon, and the length of the document. Therefore, the automatic summarization of legal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Purnima Bindal , Vikas Kumar , Sagar Rathore , Vasudha Bhatnagar

Professional summaries are written with document-level information, such as the theme of the document, in mind. This is in contrast with most seq2seq decoders which simultaneously learn to focus on salient content, while deciding what to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Rahul Aralikatte , Shashi Narayan , Joshua Maynez , Sascha Rothe , Ryan McDonald

We propose an abstraction-based multi-document summarization framework that can construct new sentences by exploring more fine-grained syntactic units than sentences, namely, noun/verb phrases. Different from existing abstraction-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Lidong Bing , Piji Li , Yi Liao , Wai Lam , Weiwei Guo , Rebecca J. Passonneau

Inspired by how humans summarize long documents, we propose an accurate and fast summarization model that first selects salient sentences and then rewrites them abstractively (i.e., compresses and paraphrases) to generate a concise overall…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Yen-Chun Chen , Mohit Bansal

The task of multi-document summarization (MDS) aims at models that, given multiple documents as input, are able to generate a summary that combines disperse information, originally spread across these documents. Accordingly, it is expected…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Ruben Wolhandler , Arie Cattan , Ori Ernst , Ido Dagan

Knowledge-aware methods have boosted a range of natural language processing applications over the last decades. With the gathered momentum, knowledge recently has been pumped into enormous attention in document summarization, one of natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Yutong Qu , Wei Emma Zhang , Jian Yang , Lingfei Wu , Jia Wu

The increased prevalence of online meetings has significantly enhanced the practicality of a model that can automatically generate the summary of a given meeting. This paper introduces a novel and effective approach to automate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Logan Golia , Jugal Kalita

Research papers are well structured documents. They have text, figures, equations, tables etc., to covey their ideas and findings. They are divided into sections like Introduction, Model, Experiments etc., which deal with different aspects…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Keshav Kumar , Ravindranath Chowdary

Multi-document summarization (MDS) is a challenging task, often decomposed to subtasks of salience and redundancy detection, followed by text generation. In this context, alignment of corresponding sentences between a reference summary and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Ori Ernst , Ori Shapira , Aviv Slobodkin , Sharon Adar , Mohit Bansal , Jacob Goldberger , Ran Levy , Ido Dagan

We propose a text editor to help users plan, structure and reflect on their writing process. It provides continuously updated paragraph-wise summaries as margin annotations, using automatic text summarization. Summary levels range from full…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Hai Dang , Karim Benharrak , Florian Lehmann , Daniel Buschek

Extractive summarization is a task of highlighting the most important parts of the text. We introduce a new approach to extractive summarization task using hidden clustering structure of the text. Experimental results on CNN/DailyMail…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Tikhonov Pavel , Anastasiya Ianina , Valentin Malykh

Text summarization is a fundamental task in natural language processing (NLP), and the information explosion has made long-document processing increasingly demanding, making summarization essential. Existing research mainly focuses on model…