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Abstractive summarization aims to generate a shorter version of the document covering all the salient points in a compact and coherent fashion. On the other hand, query-based summarization highlights those points that are relevant in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Preksha Nema , Mitesh Khapra , Anirban Laha , Balaraman Ravindran

Query-focused Summarization (QfS) deals with systems that generate summaries from document(s) based on a query. Motivated by the insight that Reinforcement Learning (RL) provides a generalization to Supervised Learning (SL) for Natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Swaroop Nath , Harshad Khadilkar , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

The Query Focused Text Summarization (QFTS) task aims at building systems that generate the summary of the text document(s) based on the given query. A key challenge in addressing this task is the lack of large labeled data for training the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar , Enamul Hoque , Jimmy Xiangji Huang

Query-focused summarization (QFS) gives a summary of documents to answer a query. Past QFS work assumes queries have one answer, ignoring debatable ones (Is law school worth it?). We introduce Debatable QFS (DQFS), a task to create…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Nishant Balepur , Alexa Siu , Nedim Lipka , Franck Dernoncourt , Tong Sun , Jordan Boyd-Graber , Puneet Mathur

In this paper, we present a model for generating summaries of text documents with respect to a query. This is known as query-based summarization. We adapt an existing dataset of news article summaries for the task and train a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Johan Hasselqvist , Niklas Helmertz , Mikael Kågebäck

Keyphrases are crucial for searching and systematizing scholarly documents. Most current methods for keyphrase extraction are aimed at the extraction of the most significant words in the text. But in practice, the list of keyphrases often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Anna Glazkova , Dmitry Morozov

Query-based document summarization aims to extract or generate a summary of a document which directly answers or is relevant to the search query. It is an important technique that can be beneficial to a variety of applications such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Mingjun Zhao , Shengli Yan , Bang Liu , Xinwang Zhong , Qian Hao , Haolan Chen , Di Niu , Bowei Long , Weidong Guo

Although the problem of automatic video summarization has recently received a lot of attention, the problem of creating a video summary that also highlights elements relevant to a search query has been less studied. We address this problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Arun Balajee Vasudevan , Michael Gygli , Anna Volokitin , Luc Van Gool

Generating a concise and informative video summary from a long video is important, yet subjective due to varying scene importance. Users' ability to specify scene importance through text queries enhances the relevance of such summaries.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Nirav Patel , Payal Prajapati , Maitrik Shah

With more and more advanced data analysis techniques emerging, people will expect these techniques to be applied in more complex tasks and solve problems in our daily lives. Text Summarization is one of famous applications in Natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Chen Jia-Chen , Guillem Senabre , Allane Caron

This study examines the potential of integrating Learning-to-Rank (LTR) with Query-focused Summarization (QFS) to enhance the summary relevance via content prioritization. Using a shared secondary decoder with the summarization decoder, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Sajad Sotudeh , Nazli Goharian

Summarization is the task of compressing source document(s) into coherent and succinct passages. This is a valuable tool to present users with concise and accurate sketch of the top ranked documents related to their queries. Query-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Sayali Kulkarni , Sheide Chammas , Wan Zhu , Fei Sha , Eugene Ie

Query-driven recommendation with unknown items poses a challenge for users to understand why certain items are appropriate for their needs. Query-driven Contrastive Summarization (QCS) is a methodology designed to address this issue by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 George-Kirollos Saad , Scott Sanner

Modern models for text generation show state-of-the-art results in many natural language processing tasks. In this work, we explore the effectiveness of abstractive text summarization models for keyphrase selection. A list of keyphrases is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Anna Glazkova , Dmitry Morozov

Abstractive text summarization aims at compressing the information of a long source document into a rephrased, condensed summary. Despite advances in modeling techniques, abstractive summarization models still suffer from several key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Vidhisha Balachandran , Artidoro Pagnoni , Jay Yoon Lee , Dheeraj Rajagopal , Jaime Carbonell , Yulia Tsvetkov

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate strong performance in text summarization, yet their effectiveness drops significantly across languages with restricted training resources. This work addresses the challenge of query-focused…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Vuk Đuranović , Marko Robnik Šikonja

Language Models (LMs) have revolutionized natural language processing, enabling high-quality text generation through prompting and in-context learning. However, models often struggle with long-context summarization due to positional biases,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Neelabh Sinha

The task of automatic text summarization produces a concise and fluent text summary while preserving key information and overall meaning. Recent approaches to document-level summarization have seen significant improvements in recent years…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Gonçalo Raposo , Afonso Raposo , Ana Sofia Carmo

In the dynamic landscape of large-scale web search, Query-Driven Text Summarization (QDTS) aims to generate concise and informative summaries from textual documents based on a given query, which is essential for improving user engagement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Zeyu Xiong , Yixuan Nan , Li Gao , Hengzhu Tang , Shuaiqiang Wang , Junfeng Wang , Dawei Yin

Lay summarization aims to generate lay summaries of scientific papers automatically. It is an essential task that can increase the relevance of science for all of society. In this paper, we build a lay summary generation system based on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Tiezheng Yu , Dan Su , Wenliang Dai , Pascale Fung