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Long video summarization presents significant challenges for current multimodal large language models (MLLMs), particularly in maintaining temporal fidelity over extended durations and producing summaries that are both semantically and…

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In the Query Focused Multi-Document Summarization (QF-MDS) task, a set of documents and a query are given where the goal is to generate a summary from these documents based on the given query. However, one major challenge for this task is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar , Enamul Hoque , Jimmy Xiangji Huang

Dialogue summarization helps readers capture salient information from long conversations in meetings, interviews, and TV series. However, real-world dialogues pose a great challenge to current summarization models, as the dialogue length…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Yusen Zhang , Ansong Ni , Tao Yu , Rui Zhang , Chenguang Zhu , Budhaditya Deb , Asli Celikyilmaz , Ahmed Hassan Awadallah , Dragomir Radev

Most research on abstractive summarization focuses on single-domain applications, often neglecting how domain shifts between documents affect performance and the generalization ability of summarization models. To address this issue, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Haohan Yuan , Haopeng Zhang

Long documents such as academic articles and business reports have been the standard format to detail out important issues and complicated subjects that require extra attention. An automatic summarization system that can effectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Huan Yee Koh , Jiaxin Ju , Ming Liu , Shirui Pan

Text summarization is a user-preference based task, i.e., for one document, users often have different priorities for summary. As a key aspect of customization in summarization, granularity is used to measure the semantic coverage between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Ming Zhong , Yang Liu , Suyu Ge , Yuning Mao , Yizhu Jiao , Xingxing Zhang , Yichong Xu , Chenguang Zhu , Michael Zeng , Jiawei Han

Meeting summarization has become a critical task considering the increase in online interactions. While new techniques are introduced regularly, their evaluation uses metrics not designed to capture meeting-specific errors, undermining…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Frederic Kirstein , Jan Philip Wahle , Terry Ruas , Bela Gipp

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Yumo Xu , Mirella Lapata

Current summarization systems yield generic summaries that are disconnected from users' preferences and expectations. To address this limitation, we present CTRLsum, a novel framework for controllable summarization. Our approach enables…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Junxian He , Wojciech Kryściński , Bryan McCann , Nazneen Rajani , Caiming Xiong

We propose the shared task of cross-lingual conversation summarization, \emph{ConvSumX Challenge}, opening new avenues for researchers to investigate solutions that integrate conversation summarization and machine translation. This task can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Yulong Chen , Ming Zhong , Xuefeng Bai , Naihao Deng , Jing Li , Xianchao Zhu , Yue Zhang

The high annotation costs and diverse demands of various summarization tasks motivate the development of few-shot summarization. However, despite the emergence of many summarization tasks and datasets, the current training paradigm for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Yulong Chen , Yang Liu , Ruochen Xu , Ziyi Yang , Chenguang Zhu , Michael Zeng , Yue Zhang

Automatic chart to text summarization is an effective tool for the visually impaired people along with providing precise insights of tabular data in natural language to the user. A large and well-structured dataset is always a key part for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Raian Rahman , Rizvi Hasan , Abdullah Al Farhad , Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar , Md. Hamjajul Ashmafee , Abu Raihan Mostofa Kamal

Text summarization helps readers capture salient information from documents, news, interviews, and meetings. However, most state-of-the-art pretrained language models (LM) are unable to efficiently process long text for many summarization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Yusen Zhang , Ansong Ni , Ziming Mao , Chen Henry Wu , Chenguang Zhu , Budhaditya Deb , Ahmed H. Awadallah , Dragomir Radev , Rui Zhang

Faceted summarization provides briefings of a document from different perspectives. Readers can quickly comprehend the main points of a long document with the help of a structured outline. However, little research has been conducted on this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Rui Meng , Khushboo Thaker , Lei Zhang , Yue Dong , Xingdi Yuan , Tong Wang , Daqing He

Evaluation frameworks for text summarization have evolved in terms of both domain coverage and metrics. However, existing benchmarks still lack domain-specific assessment criteria, remain predominantly English-centric, and face challenges…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Hyangsuk Min , Yuho Lee , Minjeong Ban , Jiaqi Deng , Nicole Hee-Yeon Kim , Taewon Yun , Hang Su , Jason Cai , Hwanjun Song

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

While the NLP community has produced numerous summarization benchmarks, none provide the rich annotations required to simultaneously address many important problems related to control and reliability. We introduce a Wikipedia-derived…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Kundan Krishna , Prakhar Gupta , Sanjana Ramprasad , Byron C. Wallace , Jeffrey P. Bigham , Zachary C. Lipton

Product reviews summarization is a type of Multi-Document Summarization (MDS) task in which the summarized document sets are often far larger than in traditional MDS (up to tens of thousands of reviews). We highlight this difference and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Ori Shapira , Ran Levy

Huge amount of information is present in the World Wide Web and a large amount is being added to it frequently. A query-specific summary of multiple documents is very helpful to the user in this context. Currently, few systems have been…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-01-20 C Ravindranath Chowdary , P Sreenivasa Kumar

Online conversations have become more prevalent on public discussion platforms (e.g. Reddit). With growing controversial topics, it is desirable to summarize not only diverse arguments, but also their rationale and justification. Early…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-24 An Quang Tang , Xiuzhen Zhang , Minh Ngoc Dinh , Zhuang Li