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We present work on summarising deliberative processes for non-English languages. Unlike commonly studied datasets, such as news articles, this deliberation dataset reflects difficulties of combining multiple narratives, mostly of poor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-13 M. Arana-Catania , Rob Procter , Yulan He , Maria Liakata

Text summarization is an approach for identifying important information present within text documents. This computational technique aims to generate shorter versions of the source text, by including only the relevant and salient information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Kalliath Abdul Rasheed Issam , Shivam Patel , Subalalitha C. N

Withthegrowthofknowledgegraphs, entity descriptions are becoming extremely lengthy. Entity summarization task, aiming to generate diverse, comprehensive, and representative summaries for entities, has received increasing interest recently.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Dongjun Wei , Yaxin Liu , Fuqing Zhu , Liangjun Zang , Wei Zhou , Yijun Lu , Songlin Hu

Forum threads are lengthy and rich in content. Concise thread summaries will benefit both newcomers seeking information and those who participate in the discussion. Few studies, however, have examined the task of forum thread summarization.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Sansiri Tarnpradab , Fei Liu , Kien A. Hua

AI agents are being developed to support high stakes decision-making processes from driving cars to prescribing drugs, making it increasingly important for human users to understand their behavior. Policy summarization methods aim to convey…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Isaac Lage , Daphna Lifschitz , Finale Doshi-Velez , Ofra Amir

In the past few decades, there has been an explosion in the amount of available data produced from various sources with different topics. The availability of this enormous data necessitates us to adopt effective computational tools to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Mina Samizadeh

Controllable summarization aims to provide summaries that take into account user-specified aspects and preferences to better assist them with their information need, as opposed to the standard summarization setup which build a single…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Mounica Maddela , Mayank Kulkarni , Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro

Recent advances in natural language processing have enabled automation of a wide range of tasks, including machine translation, named entity recognition, and sentiment analysis. Automated summarization of documents, or groups of documents,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Amanuel Alambo , Cori Lohstroh , Erik Madaus , Swati Padhee , Brandy Foster , Tanvi Banerjee , Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan , Michael Raymer

We introduce extreme summarization, a new single-document summarization task which does not favor extractive strategies and calls for an abstractive modeling approach. The idea is to create a short, one-sentence news summary answering the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Shashi Narayan , Shay B. Cohen , Mirella Lapata

Authors' keyphrases assigned to scientific articles are essential for recognizing content and topic aspects. Most of the proposed supervised and unsupervised methods for keyphrase generation are unable to produce terms that are valuable but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Erion Çano , Ondřej Bojar

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

Summarization of legal case judgement documents is a challenging problem in Legal NLP. However, not much analyses exist on how different families of summarization models (e.g., extractive vs. abstractive) perform when applied to legal case…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Abhay Shukla , Paheli Bhattacharya , Soham Poddar , Rajdeep Mukherjee , Kripabandhu Ghosh , Pawan Goyal , Saptarshi Ghosh

Summarizing content contributed by individuals can be challenging, because people make different lexical choices even when describing the same events. However, there remains a significant need to summarize such content. Examples include the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Wencan Luo , Fei Liu , Zitao Liu , Diane Litman

Complex questions that require inferencing and synthesizing information from multiple documents can be seen as a kind of topic-oriented, informative multi-document summarization where the goal is to produce a single text as a compressed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Yllias Chali , Shafiq Rayhan Joty , Sadid A. Hasan

Extractive models usually formulate text summarization as extracting fixed top-$k$ salient sentences from the document as a summary. Few works exploited extracting finer-grained Elementary Discourse Unit (EDU) with little analysis and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Yuping Wu , Ching-Hsun Tseng , Jiayu Shang , Shengzhong Mao , Goran Nenadic , Xiao-Jun Zeng

Many recent long-context and agentic systems address context-length limitations by adding hierarchical memory: they extract atomic units from raw data, build multi-level representatives by grouping and compression, and traverse this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yashar Talebirad , Ali Parsaee , Csongor Y. Szepesvari , Amirhossein Nadiri , Osmar Zaiane

In this paper, we propose a novel neural single document extractive summarization model for long documents, incorporating both the global context of the whole document and the local context within the current topic. We evaluate the model on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Wen Xiao , Giuseppe Carenini

We introduce 'extreme summarization', a new single-document summarization task which aims at creating a short, one-sentence news summary answering the question ``What is the article about?''. We argue that extreme summarization, by nature,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Shashi Narayan , Shay B. Cohen , Mirella Lapata

Knowledge graphs capture entities and relations from long documents and can facilitate reasoning in many downstream applications. Extracting compact knowledge graphs containing only salient entities and relations is important but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Zeqiu Wu , Rik Koncel-Kedziorski , Mari Ostendorf , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Most general-purpose extractive summarization models are trained on news articles, which are short and present all important information upfront. As a result, such models are biased on position and often perform a smart selection of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Pinelopi Papalampidi , Frank Keller , Lea Frermann , Mirella Lapata