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Dialogue is an essential part of human communication and cooperation. Existing research mainly focuses on short dialogue scenarios in a one-on-one fashion. However, multi-person interactions in the real world, such as meetings or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Ming Zhong , Yang Liu , Yichong Xu , Chenguang Zhu , Michael Zeng

This paper creates a paradigm shift with regard to the way we build neural extractive summarization systems. Instead of following the commonly used framework of extracting sentences individually and modeling the relationship between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Ming Zhong , Pengfei Liu , Yiran Chen , Danqing Wang , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

Speech summarization has become an essential tool for efficiently managing and accessing the growing volume of spoken and audiovisual content. However, despite its increasing importance, speech summarization remains loosely defined. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Fabian Retkowski , Maike Züfle , Andreas Sudmann , Dinah Pfau , Shinji Watanabe , Jan Niehues , Alexander Waibel

Global partisan hostility and polarization has increased, and this polarization is heightened around presidential elections. Models capable of generating accurate summaries of diverse perspectives can help reduce such polarization by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Nicholas Deas , Kathleen McKeown

Automatic abstractive summaries are found to often distort or fabricate facts in the article. This inconsistency between summary and original text has seriously impacted its applicability. We propose a fact-aware summarization model FASum…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Chenguang Zhu , William Hinthorn , Ruochen Xu , Qingkai Zeng , Michael Zeng , Xuedong Huang , Meng Jiang

Online information has increased tremendously in today's age of Internet. As a result, the need has arose to extract relevant content from the plethora of available information. Researchers are widely using automatic text summarization…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Mohd Khizir Siddiqui , Amreen Ahmad , Om Pal , Tanvir Ahmad

MediaSum, a large-scale media interview dataset consisting of 463.6K transcripts with abstractive summaries. To create this dataset, we collect interview transcripts from NPR and CNN and employ the overview and topic descriptions as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Chenguang Zhu , Yang Liu , Jie Mei , Michael Zeng

Traditional dialogue summarization primarily focuses on dialogue content, assuming it comprises adequate information for a clear summary. However, this assumption often fails for discussions grounded in shared background, where participants…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Weixiao Zhou , Junnan Zhu , Gengyao Li , Xianfu Cheng , Xinnian Liang , Feifei Zhai , Zhoujun Li

Current dialogue summarization systems usually encode the text with a number of general semantic features (e.g., keywords and topics) to gain more powerful dialogue modeling capabilities. However, these features are obtained via open-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Xiachong Feng , Xiaocheng Feng , Libo Qin , Bing Qin , Ting Liu

Opinion summarization aims to profile a target by extracting opinions from multiple documents. Most existing work approaches the task in a semi-supervised manner due to the difficulty of obtaining high-quality annotation from thousands of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Suyu Ge , Jiaxin Huang , Yu Meng , Sharon Wang , Jiawei Han

Objective: Automatic text summarization tools can help users in the biomedical domain to access information efficiently from a large volume of scientific literature and other sources of text documents. In this paper, we propose a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Milad Moradi , Nasser Ghadiri

In this article, we are interested in the annotation of transcriptions of human-human dialogue taken from meeting records. We first propose a meeting content model where conversational acts are interpreted with respect to their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Vincenzo Pallotta , Hatem Ghorbel , Patrick Ruch , Giovanni Coray

Extractive opinion summarization involves automatically producing a summary of text about an entity (e.g., a product's reviews) by extracting representative sentences that capture prevalent opinions in the review set. Typically, in online…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury , Nicholas Monath , Avinava Dubey , Manzil Zaheer , Andrew McCallum , Amr Ahmed , Snigdha Chaturvedi

As the number of recorded meetings increases, it becomes increasingly important to utilize summarization technology to create useful summaries of these recordings. However, there is a crucial lack of annotated meeting corpora for developing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Yebowen Hu , Tim Ganter , Hanieh Deilamsalehy , Franck Dernoncourt , Hassan Foroosh , Fei Liu

Despite recent advancements in automatic summarization, state-of-the-art models do not summarize all documents equally well, raising the question: why? While prior research has extensively analyzed summarization models, little attention has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Steven Koniaev , Ori Ernst , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

Opinion summarization is the task of automatically creating summaries that reflect subjective information expressed in multiple documents, such as product reviews. While the majority of previous work has focused on the extractive setting,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Arthur Bražinskas , Mirella Lapata , Ivan Titov

Dialogue summarization is abstractive in nature, making it suffer from factual errors. The factual correctness of summaries has the highest priority before practical applications. Many efforts have been made to improve faithfulness in text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Bin Wang , Chen Zhang , Yan Zhang , Yiming Chen , Haizhou Li

Online reviews play a pivotal role in influencing consumer decisions across various domains, from purchasing products to selecting hotels or restaurants. However, the sheer volume of reviews -- often containing repetitive or irrelevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Mir Tafseer Nayeem , Davood Rafiei

Opinions in scientific research papers can be divergent, leading to controversies among reviewers. However, most existing datasets for opinion summarization are centered around product reviews and assume that the analyzed opinions are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Qi Zeng , Mankeerat Sidhu , Ansel Blume , Hou Pong Chan , Lu Wang , Heng Ji

Pre-trained neural abstractive summarization systems have dominated extractive strategies on news summarization performance, at least in terms of ROUGE. However, system-generated abstractive summaries often face the pitfall of factual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Yue Dong , Shuohang Wang , Zhe Gan , Yu Cheng , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung , Jingjing Liu