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Multi-document summarization (MDS) is an effective tool for information aggregation that generates an informative and concise summary from a cluster of topic-related documents. Our survey, the first of its kind, systematically overviews the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Congbo Ma , Wei Emma Zhang , Mingyu Guo , Hu Wang , Quan Z. Sheng

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

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

Deep learning has led to significant improvement in text summarization with various methods investigated and improved ROUGE scores reported over the years. However, gaps still exist between summaries produced by automatic summarizers and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Dandan Huang , Leyang Cui , Sen Yang , Guangsheng Bao , Kun Wang , Jun Xie , Yue Zhang

Text Summarization has been an extensively studied problem. Traditional approaches to text summarization rely heavily on feature engineering. In contrast to this, we propose a fully data-driven approach using feedforward neural networks for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Aakash Sinha , Abhishek Yadav , Akshay Gahlot

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

Text summarization is a fundamental task in natural language processing that aims to condense large amounts of textual information into concise and coherent summaries. With the exponential growth of content and the need to extract key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Öykü Berfin Mercan , Sena Nur Cavsak , Aysu Deliahmetoglu , Senem Tanberk

Query-based text summarization is an important real world problem that requires to condense the prolix text data into a summary under the guidance of the query information provided by users. The topic has been studied for a long time and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Hang Yu , Jiawei Han

Scientific article summarization is challenging: large, annotated corpora are not available, and the summary should ideally include the article's impacts on research community. This paper provides novel solutions to these two challenges. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Michihiro Yasunaga , Jungo Kasai , Rui Zhang , Alexander R. Fabbri , Irene Li , Dan Friedman , Dragomir R. Radev

Long document summarization poses a significant challenge in natural language processing due to input lengths that exceed the capacity of most state-of-the-art pre-trained language models. This study proposes a hierarchical framework that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yuan-Jhe Yin , Bo-Yu Chen , Berlin Chen

In recent times, extracting valuable information from large text is making significant progress. Especially in the current era of social media, people expect quick bites of information. Automatic text summarization seeks to tackle this by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Sindhu Nair , Y. S. Rao , Radha Shankarmani

Summarization for scientific text has shown significant benefits both for the research community and human society. Given the fact that the nature of scientific text is distinctive and the input of the multi-document summarization task is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Huy Quoc To , Ming Liu , Guangyan Huang , Hung-Nghiep Tran , Andr'e Greiner-Petter , Felix Beierle , Akiko Aizawa

Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) has enabled the automated processing of lengthy documents even without supervised training on a task-specific dataset. Yet, their zero-shot performance in complex tasks as opposed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-12 WonJin Yoon , Boyu Ren , Spencer Thomas , Chanhwi Kim , Guergana Savova , Mei-Hua Hall , Timothy Miller

Despite recent advancements in automatic summarization, state-of-the-art models do not summarize all documents equally well, raising the question: why? While prior research has extensively analyzed summarization models, little attention has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Steven Koniaev , Ori Ernst , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

Automated lay summarisation (LS) aims to simplify complex technical documents into a more accessible format to non-experts. Existing approaches using pre-trained language models, possibly augmented with external background knowledge, tend…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Zheheng Luo , Qianqian Xie , Sophia Ananiadou

The substantial growth of textual content in diverse domains and platforms has led to a considerable need for Automatic Text Summarization (ATS) techniques that aid in the process of text analysis. The effectiveness of text summarization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Nevidu Jayatilleke , Ruvan Weerasinghe , Nipuna Senanayake

The ubiquitous availability of computing devices and the widespread use of the internet have generated a large amount of data continuously. Therefore, the amount of available information on any given topic is far beyond humans' processing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Samira Ghodratnama

The Scholarly Document Processing (SDP) workshop is to encourage more efforts on natural language understanding of scientific task. It contains three shared tasks and we participate in the LongSumm shared task. In this paper, we describe…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Jiaxin Ju , Ming Liu , Longxiang Gao , Shirui Pan

This paper details the efforts of the WisPerMed team in the BioLaySumm2024 Shared Task on automatic lay summarization in the biomedical domain, aimed at making scientific publications accessible to non-specialists. Large language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Tabea M. G. Pakull , Hendrik Damm , Ahmad Idrissi-Yaghir , Henning Schäfer , Peter A. Horn , Christoph M. Friedrich

Large language models (LLMs) excel in abstractive summarization tasks, delivering fluent and pertinent summaries. Recent advancements have extended their capabilities to handle long-input contexts, exceeding 100k tokens. However, in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Mathieu Ravaut , Aixin Sun , Nancy F. Chen , Shafiq Joty