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Evaluating text summarization has been a challenging task in natural language processing (NLP). Automatic metrics which heavily rely on reference summaries are not suitable in many situations, while human evaluation is time-consuming and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Huyen Nguyen , Haihua Chen , Lavanya Pobbathi , Junhua Ding

Research on automated text summarization relies heavily on human and automatic evaluation. While recent work on human evaluation mainly adopted intrinsic evaluation methods, judging the generic quality of text summaries, e.g.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Xiao Pu , Mingqi Gao , Xiaojun Wan

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

Reliable evaluation of large language model (LLM)-generated summaries remains an open challenge, particularly across heterogeneous domains and document lengths. We conduct a comprehensive meta-evaluation of 14 automatic summarization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Huyen Nguyen , Haoxuan Zhang , Yang Zhang , Junhua Ding , Haihua Chen

Existing summarization systems mostly generate summaries purely relying on the content of the source document. However, even for humans, we usually need some references or exemplars to help us fully understand the source document and write…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Chenxin An , Ming Zhong , Zhichao Geng , Jianqiang Yang , Xipeng Qiu

Evaluating text summarization is a challenging problem, and existing evaluation metrics are far from satisfactory. In this study, we explored ChatGPT's ability to perform human-like summarization evaluation using four human evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Mingqi Gao , Jie Ruan , Renliang Sun , Xunjian Yin , Shiping Yang , Xiaojun Wan

Although LLM context lengths have grown, there is evidence that their ability to integrate information across long-form texts has not kept pace. We evaluate one such understanding task: generating summaries of novels. When human authors of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Rebecca M. M. Hicke , Sil Hamilton , David Mimno , Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan

Reward learning enables the application of reinforcement learning (RL) to tasks where reward is defined by human judgment, building a model of reward by asking humans questions. Most work on reward learning has used simulated environments,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Daniel M. Ziegler , Nisan Stiennon , Jeffrey Wu , Tom B. Brown , Alec Radford , Dario Amodei , Paul Christiano , Geoffrey Irving

Exploring the tremendous amount of data efficiently to make a decision, similar to answering a complicated question, is challenging with many real-world application scenarios. In this context, automatic summarization has substantial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Samira Ghodratnama , Mehrdad Zakershahrak , Fariborz Sobhanmanesh

Complex, multi-task problems have proven to be difficult to solve efficiently in a sparse-reward reinforcement learning setting. In order to be sample efficient, multi-task learning requires reuse and sharing of low-level policies. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Valerie Chen , Abhinav Gupta , Kenneth Marino

Despite recent advances, evaluating how well large language models (LLMs) follow user instructions remains an open problem. While evaluation methods of language models have seen a rise in prompt-based approaches, limited work on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Ondrej Skopek , Rahul Aralikatte , Sian Gooding , Victor Carbune

As academic literature proliferates, traditional review methods are increasingly challenged by the sheer volume and diversity of available research. This article presents a study that aims to address these challenges by enhancing the…

Large language models have shown impressive performance across a wide variety of tasks, including text summarization. In this paper, we show that this strong performance extends to opinion summarization. We explore several pipeline methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Adithya Bhaskar , Alexander R. Fabbri , Greg Durrett

Abstractive summarization has been studied using neural sequence transduction methods with datasets of large, paired document-summary examples. However, such datasets are rare and the models trained from them do not generalize to other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Eric Chu , Peter J. Liu

Automating the assessment of learner summaries provides a useful tool for assessing learner reading comprehension. We present a summarization task for evaluating non-native reading comprehension and propose three novel approaches to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Menglin Xia , Ekaterina Kochmar , Ted Briscoe

Summarizing sales calls is a routine task performed manually by salespeople. We present a production system which combines generative models fine-tuned for customer-agent setting, with a human-in-the-loop user experience for an interactive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Abedelkadir Asi , Song Wang , Roy Eisenstadt , Dean Geckt , Yarin Kuper , Yi Mao , Royi Ronen

Document Summarization is the procedure of generating a meaningful and concise summary of a given document with the inclusion of relevant and topic-important points. There are two approaches: one is picking up the most relevant statements…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Siddhant Porwal , Laxmi Bewoor , Vivek Deshpande

In the realm of artificial intelligence, where a vast majority of data is unstructured, obtaining substantial amounts of labeled data to train supervised machine learning models poses a significant challenge. To address this, we delve into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Natan Vidra , Thomas Clifford , Katherine Jijo , Eden Chung , Liang Zhang

Automatic literature review generation is one of the most challenging tasks in natural language processing. Although large language models have tackled literature review generation, the absence of large-scale datasets has been a stumbling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Tetsu Kasanishi , Masaru Isonuma , Junichiro Mori , Ichiro Sakata

In a world of proliferating data, the ability to rapidly summarize text is growing in importance. Automatic summarization of text can be thought of as a sequence to sequence problem. Another area of natural language processing that solves a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Jacob Krantz , Jugal Kalita