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In this short paper, we explore a new way to refactor a simple but tricky-to-parallelize tree-traversal algorithm to harness multicore parallelism. Crucially, the refactoring draws from some classic techniques from programming-languages…

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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…

Sequence-to-sequence deep neural models fine-tuned for abstractive summarization can achieve great performance on datasets with enough human annotations. Yet, it has been shown that they have not reached their full potential, with a wide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Mathieu Ravaut , Shafiq Joty , Nancy F. Chen

Recent Transformer-based summarization models have provided a promising approach to abstractive summarization. They go beyond sentence selection and extractive strategies to deal with more complicated tasks such as novel word generation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Sajad Sotudeh , Hanieh Deilamsalehy , Franck Dernoncourt , Nazli Goharian

In this paper, we revisit the challenging problem of unsupervised single-document summarization and study the following aspects: Integer linear programming (ILP) based algorithms, Parameterized normalization of term and sentence scores, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Daniel Lee , Rakesh Verma , Avisha Das , Arjun Mukherjee

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

Refactoring is the de-facto practice to optimize software health. While several studies propose refactoring strategies to optimize software design through applying design patterns and removing design defects, little is known about how…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Eman Abdullah AlOmar , Tianjia Wang , Vaibhavi Raut , Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer , Christian Newman , Ali Ouni

Producing a reduced version of a source text, as in generic or focused summarization, inherently involves two distinct subtasks: deciding on targeted content and generating a coherent text conveying it. While some popular approaches address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Aviv Slobodkin , Paul Roit , Eran Hirsch , Ori Ernst , Ido Dagan

Deep neural networks are data hungry models and thus face difficulties when attempting to train on small text datasets. Transfer learning is a potential solution but their effectiveness in the text domain is not as explored as in areas such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Yaser Keneshloo , Naren Ramakrishnan , Chandan K. Reddy

Existing multi-document summarization systems usually rely on a specific summarization model (i.e., a summarization method with a specific parameter setting) to extract summaries for different document sets with different topics. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-07-09 Xiaojun Wan , Ziqiang Cao , Furu Wei , Sujian Li , Ming Zhou

Search engines play an important role in our everyday lives by assisting us in finding the information we need. When we input a complex query, however, results are often far from satisfactory. In this work, we introduce a query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Rodrigo Nogueira , Kyunghyun Cho

Modern code review is a widely used technique employed in both industrial and open-source projects to improve software quality, share knowledge, and ensure adherence to coding standards and guidelines. During code review, developers may…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Eman Abdullah AlOmar , Moataz Chouchen , Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer , Ali Ouni

Summarisation of research results in plain language is crucial for promoting public understanding of research findings. The use of Natural Language Processing to generate lay summaries has the potential to relieve researchers' workload and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Oliver Vinzelberg , Mark David Jenkins , Gordon Morison , David McMinn , Zoe Tieges

Text summarization condenses a text to a shorter version while retaining the important informations. Abstractive summarization is a recent development that generates new phrases, rather than simply copying or rephrasing sentences within the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-06 André Cibils , Claudiu Musat , Andreea Hossman , Michael Baeriswyl

With the abundance of data and information in todays time, it is nearly impossible for man, or, even machine, to go through all of the data line by line. What one usually does is to try to skim through the lines and retain the absolutely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Imaad Zaffar Khan , Amaan Aijaz Sheikh , Utkarsh Sinha

LLMs and RAG systems are now capable of handling millions of input tokens or more. However, evaluating the output quality of such systems on long-context tasks remains challenging, as tasks like Needle-in-a-Haystack lack complexity. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Philippe Laban , Alexander R. Fabbri , Caiming Xiong , Chien-Sheng Wu

E-commerce search engines often rely solely on product titles as input for ranking models with latency constraints. However, this approach can result in suboptimal relevance predictions, as product titles often lack sufficient detail to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Nitin Yadav , Changsung Kang , Hongwei Shang , Ming Sun

The exponential growth of textual data has created a crucial need for tools that assist users in extracting meaningful insights. Traditional document summarization approaches often fail to meet individual user requirements and lack…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Samira Ghodratnama , Amin Beheshti , Mehrdad Zakershahrak

Refactoring is one of the most important activities in software engineering which is used to improve the quality of a software system. With the advancement of deep learning techniques, researchers are attempting to apply deep learning…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Bridget Nyirongo , Yanjie Jiang , He Jiang , Hui Liu

In recent years, text-aware collaborative filtering methods have been proposed to address essential challenges in recommendations such as data sparsity, cold start problem, and long-tail distribution. However, many of these text-oriented…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Zhimeng Pan , Wenzheng Tao , Qingyao Ai