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Query focused summarization (QFS) models aim to generate summaries from source documents that can answer the given query. Most previous work on QFS only considers the query relevance criterion when producing the summary. However, studying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Dan Su , Tiezheng Yu , Pascale Fung

Several code summarization techniques have been proposed in the literature to automatically document a code snippet or a function. Ideally, software developers should be involved in assessing the quality of the generated summaries. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Antonio Mastropaolo , Matteo Ciniselli , Massimiliano Di Penta , Gabriele Bavota

Summarization of speech is a difficult problem due to the spontaneity of the flow, disfluencies, and other issues that are not usually encountered in written texts. Our work presents the first application of the BERTSum model to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Alexandra Savelieva , Bryan Au-Yeung , Vasanth Ramani

Video captioning aims to describe events in a video with natural language. In recent years, many works have focused on improving captioning models' performance. However, like other text generation tasks, it risks introducing factual errors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Hui Liu , Xiaojun Wan

This paper explores three simple data manipulation techniques (synthesis, augmentation, curriculum) for improving abstractive summarization models without the need for any additional data. We introduce a method of data synthesis with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Ahmed Magooda , Diane Litman

Despite some recent advances, automatic text summarization remains unreliable, elusive, and of limited practical use in applications. Two main problems with current summarization methods are well known: evaluation and factual consistency.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Jay Ahn , Foaad Khosmood

This paper proposes a text summarization approach for factual reports using a deep learning model. This approach consists of three phases: feature extraction, feature enhancement, and summary generation, which work together to assimilate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Sukriti Verma , Vagisha Nidhi

Neural abstractive summarization models are prone to generate summaries which are factually inconsistent with their source documents. Previous work has introduced the task of recognizing such factual inconsistency as a downstream…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Prasetya Ajie Utama , Joshua Bambrick , Nafise Sadat Moosavi , Iryna Gurevych

Specifically focusing on the landscape of abstractive text summarization, as opposed to extractive techniques, this survey presents a comprehensive overview, delving into state-of-the-art techniques, prevailing challenges, and prospective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Hassan Shakil , Ahmad Farooq , Jugal Kalita

When faced with a large number of product reviews, it is not clear that a human can remember all of them and weight opinions representatively to write a good reference summary. We propose an automatic metric to test the prevalence of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Christopher Malon

In e-commerce, opinion summarization is the process of summarizing the consensus opinions found in product reviews. However, the potential of additional sources such as product description and question-answers (QA) has been considered less…

Highlighting while reading is a natural behavior for people to track salient content of a document. It would be desirable to teach an extractive summarizer to do the same. However, a major obstacle to the development of a supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Kristjan Arumae , Fei Liu

A medical provider's summary of a patient visit serves several critical purposes, including clinical decision-making, facilitating hand-offs between providers, and as a reference for the patient. An effective summary is required to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Varun Nair , Elliot Schumacher , Anitha Kannan

In neural abstractive summarization field, conventional sequence-to-sequence based models often suffer from summarizing the wrong aspect of the document with respect to the main aspect. To tackle this problem, we propose the task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Shen Gao , Xiuying Chen , Piji Li , Zhaochun Ren , Lidong Bing , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan

Text summarization is the process of condensing a piece of text to fewer sentences, while still preserving its content. Chat transcript, in this context, is a textual copy of a digital or online conversation between a customer (caller) and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Pratik K. Biswas

Recent advances in the field of abstractive summarization leverage pre-trained language models rather than train a model from scratch. However, such models are sluggish to train and accompanied by a massive overhead. Researchers have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Zheng Zhao , Pinzhen Chen

This study addresses the critical issue of factual inaccuracies in machine-generated text summaries, an increasingly prevalent issue in information dissemination. Recognizing the potential of such errors to compromise information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Aniket Deroy , Subhankar Maity , Saptarshi Ghosh

Since the advent of the web, the amount of data on wen has been increased several million folds. In recent years web data generated is more than data stored for years. One important data format is text. To answer user queries over the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Chandra Shekhar Yadav

Due to the exponential growth of information and the need for efficient information consumption the task of summarization has gained paramount importance. Evaluating summarization accurately and objectively presents significant challenges,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Dong Yuan , Eti Rastogi , Fen Zhao , Sagar Goyal , Gautam Naik , Sree Prasanna Rajagopal

Determining faithfulness of a claim to a source document is an important problem across many domains. This task is generally treated as a binary judgment of whether the claim is supported or unsupported in relation to the source. In many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Melanie Subbiah , Akankshya Mishra , Grace Kim , Liyan Tang , Greg Durrett , Kathleen McKeown