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Steady progress has been made in abstractive summarization with attention-based sequence-to-sequence learning models. In this paper, we propose a new decoder where the output summary is generated by conditioning on both the input text and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Melissa Ailem , Bowen Zhang , Fei Sha

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

Existing models for extractive summarization are usually trained from scratch with a cross-entropy loss, which does not explicitly capture the global context at the document level. In this paper, we aim to improve this task by introducing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Hong Wang , Xin Wang , Wenhan Xiong , Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Shiyu Chang , William Yang Wang

Creating abstractive summaries from meeting transcripts has proven to be challenging due to the limited amount of labeled data available for training neural network models. Moreover, Transformer-based architectures have proven to beat…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Nima Sadri , Bohan Zhang , Bihan Liu

Automatic summarization generates concise summaries that contain key ideas of source documents. As the most mainstream datasets for the news sub-domain, CNN/DailyMail and BBC XSum have been widely used for performance benchmarking. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Yiming Wang , Zhuosheng Zhang , Rui Wang

Cross-lingual summarization consists of generating a summary in one language given an input document in a different language, allowing for the dissemination of relevant content across speakers of other languages. The task is challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Fantine Huot , Joshua Maynez , Chris Alberti , Reinald Kim Amplayo , Priyanka Agrawal , Constanza Fierro , Shashi Narayan , Mirella Lapata

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

We present our approach to the PerAnsSumm Shared Task, which involves perspective span identification and perspective-aware summarization in community question-answering (CQA) threads. For span identification, we adopt ensemble learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Kristin Qi , Youxiang Zhu , Xiaohui Liang

Abstractive summarization aims to generate concise summaries by creating new sentences, allowing for flexible rephrasing. However, this approach can be vulnerable to inaccuracies, particularly `hallucinations' where the model introduces…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chaimae Chellaf , Salima Mdhaffar , Yannick Estève , Stéphane Huet

With the development of Semantic Web, entity summarization has become an emerging task to generate concrete summaries for real world entities. To solve this problem, we propose an approach named MPSUM that extends a probabilistic topic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Dongjun Wei , Shiyuan Gao , Yaxin Liu , Zhibing Liu , Longtao Hang

Few-shot abstractive summarization has become a challenging task in natural language generation. To support it, we designed a novel soft prompts architecture coupled with a prompt pre-training plus fine-tuning paradigm that is effective and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Xiaochen Liu , Yang Gao , Yu Bai , Jiawei Li , Yinan Hu , Heyan Huang , Boxing Chen

Lay summaries for scientific documents typically include explanations to help readers grasp sophisticated concepts or arguments. However, current automatic summarization methods do not explicitly model explanations, which makes it difficult…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Dongqi Liu , Xi Yu , Vera Demberg , Mirella Lapata

Neural abstractive summarization models make summaries in an end-to-end manner, and little is known about how the source information is actually converted into summaries. In this paper, we define input sentences that contain essential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Yoshi Suhara , Dimitris Alikaniotis

Previous abstractive methods apply sequence-to-sequence structures to generate summary without a module to assist the system to detect vital mentions and relationships within a document. To address this problem, we utilize semantic graph to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Qiwei Bi , Haoyuan Li , Kun Lu , Hanfang Yang

We introduce a new approach for abstractive text summarization, Topic-Guided Abstractive Summarization, which calibrates long-range dependencies from topic-level features with globally salient content. The idea is to incorporate neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Chujie Zheng , Kunpeng Zhang , Harry Jiannan Wang , Ling Fan , Zhe Wang

Summarizing deeply nested discussion threads requires handling interleaved replies, quotes, and overlapping topics, which standard LLM summarizers struggle to capture reliably. We introduce ThreadSumm, a multi-stage LLM framework that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Olubusayo Olabisi , Ekata Mitra , Ameeta Agrawal

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

Entity summarization aims at creating brief but informative descriptions of entities from knowledge graphs. While previous work mostly focused on traditional techniques such as clustering algorithms and graph models, we ask how to apply…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Dongjun Wei , Yaxin Liu , Fuqing Zhu , Liangjun Zang , Wei Zhou , Jizhong Han , Songlin Hu

A quality abstractive summary should not only copy salient source texts as summaries but should also tend to generate new conceptual words to express concrete details. Inspired by the popular pointer generator sequence-to-sequence model,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Wang Wenbo , Gao Yang , Huang Heyan , Zhou Yuxiang

Attention-based neural abstractive summarization systems equipped with copy mechanisms have shown promising results. Despite this success, it has been noticed that such a system generates a summary by mostly, if not entirely, copying over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Noah Weber , Leena Shekhar , Niranjan Balasubramanian , Kyunghyun Cho