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We first propose a new task named Dialogue Description (Dial2Desc). Unlike other existing dialogue summarization tasks such as meeting summarization, we do not maintain the natural flow of a conversation but describe an object or an action…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Haojie Pan , Junpei Zhou , Zhou Zhao , Yan Liu , Deng Cai , Min Yang

We introduce an incremental summarization system for customer support agents that intelligently determines when to generate concise bullet notes during conversations, reducing agents' context-switching effort and redundant review. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yisha Wu , Cen Mia Zhao , Yuanpei Cao , Xiaoqing Su , Yashar Mehdad , Mindy Ji , Claire Na Cheng

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

Existing multi-document summarization approaches produce a uniform summary for all users without considering individuals' interests, which is highly impractical. Making a user-specific summary is a challenging task as it requires: i)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Samira Ghodratnama , Mehrdad Zakershahrak

Effective customer support requires not only accurate problem solving but also structured and empathetic communication aligned with professional standards. However, existing dialogue datasets often lack strategic guidance, and real-world…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jie Zhu , Huaixia Dou , Junhui Li , Lifan Guo , Feng Chen , Chi Zhang , Fang Kong

Current approaches for text summarization are predominantly automatic, with rather limited space for human intervention and control over the process. In this paper, we introduce SummHelper, a 2-phase summarization assistant designed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Aviv Slobodkin , Niv Nachum , Shmuel Amar , Ori Shapira , Ido Dagan

Automatic document summarization aims to produce a concise summary covering the input document's salient information. Within a report document, the salient information can be scattered in the textual and non-textual content. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Shuaiqi Liu , Jiannong Cao , Ruosong Yang , Zhiyuan Wen

Abstractive dialogue summarization is the task of distilling conversations into informative and concise summaries. Although reviews have been conducted on this topic, there is a lack of comprehensive work detailing the challenges of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Frederic Kirstein , Jan Philip Wahle , Bela Gipp , Terry Ruas

People primarily consult tables to conduct data analysis or answer specific questions. Text generation systems that can provide accurate table summaries tailored to users' information needs can facilitate more efficient access to relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Yilun Zhao , Zhenting Qi , Linyong Nan , Boyu Mi , Yixin Liu , Weijin Zou , Simeng Han , Ruizhe Chen , Xiangru Tang , Yumo Xu , Dragomir Radev , Arman Cohan

Reviews are valuable resources for customers making purchase decisions in online shopping. However, it is impractical for customers to go over the vast number of reviews and manually conclude the prominent opinions, which prompts the need…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Wendi Zhou , Ameer Saadat-Yazdi , Nadin Kokciyan

Currently, no large-scale training data is available for the task of scientific paper summarization. In this paper, we propose a novel method that automatically generates summaries for scientific papers, by utilizing videos of talks at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Guy Lev , Michal Shmueli-Scheuer , Jonathan Herzig , Achiya Jerbi , David Konopnicki

Current summarization systems yield generic summaries that are disconnected from users' preferences and expectations. To address this limitation, we present CTRLsum, a novel framework for controllable summarization. Our approach enables…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Junxian He , Wojciech Kryściński , Bryan McCann , Nazneen Rajani , Caiming Xiong

While online conversations can cover a vast amount of information in many different formats, abstractive text summarization has primarily focused on modeling solely news articles. This research gap is due, in part, to the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Alexander R. Fabbri , Faiaz Rahman , Imad Rizvi , Borui Wang , Haoran Li , Yashar Mehdad , Dragomir Radev

We present ClidSum, a benchmark dataset for building cross-lingual summarization systems on dialogue documents. It consists of 67k+ dialogue documents from two subsets (i.e., SAMSum and MediaSum) and 112k+ annotated summaries in different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Jiaan Wang , Fandong Meng , Ziyao Lu , Duo Zheng , Zhixu Li , Jianfeng Qu , Jie Zhou

Text summarization is the process of extracting the most important information from the text and presenting it concisely in fewer sentences. Call transcript is a text that involves textual description of a phone conversation between a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Pratik K. Biswas , Aleksandr Iakubovich

A massive amount of reviews are generated daily from various platforms. It is impossible for people to read through tons of reviews and to obtain useful information. Automatic summarizing customer reviews thus is important for identifying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Pengyuan Li , Lei Huang , Guang-jie Ren

Online argumentative dialog is a rich source of information on popular beliefs and opinions that could be useful to companies as well as governmental or public policy agencies. Compact, easy to read, summaries of these dialogues would thus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Amita Misra , Shereen Oraby , Shubhangi Tandon , Sharath TS , Pranav Anand , Marilyn Walker

Dialogues are a predominant mode of communication for humans, and it is immensely helpful to have automatically generated summaries of them (e.g., to revise key points discussed in a meeting, to review conversations between customer agents…

In this paper, we aim to improve abstractive dialogue summarization quality and, at the same time, enable granularity control. Our model has two primary components and stages: 1) a two-stage generation strategy that generates a preliminary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Chien-Sheng Wu , Linqing Liu , Wenhao Liu , Pontus Stenetorp , Caiming Xiong

Table summarization is a crucial task aimed at condensing information from tabular data into concise and comprehensible textual summaries. However, existing approaches often fall short of adequately meeting users' information and quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Weijia Zhang , Vaishali Pal , Jia-Hong Huang , Evangelos Kanoulas , Maarten de Rijke