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Determining and ranking the most salient entities in a text is critical for user-facing systems, especially as users increasingly rely on models to interpret long documents they only partially read. Graded entity salience addresses this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Jessica Lin , Amir Zeldes

In this paper, we present RTSUM, an unsupervised summarization framework that utilizes relation triples as the basic unit for summarization. Given an input document, RTSUM first selects salient relation triples via multi-level salience…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Seonglae Cho , Yonggi Cho , HoonJae Lee , Myungha Jang , Jinyoung Yeo , Dongha Lee

Summarization systems face the core challenge of identifying and selecting important information. In this paper, we tackle the problem of content selection in unsupervised extractive summarization of long, structured documents. We introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Ronald Cardenas , Matthias Galle , Shay B. Cohen

We present HowSumm, a novel large-scale dataset for the task of query-focused multi-document summarization (qMDS), which targets the use-case of generating actionable instructions from a set of sources. This use-case is different from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Odellia Boni , Guy Feigenblat , Guy Lev , Michal Shmueli-Scheuer , Benjamin Sznajder , David Konopnicki

This paper considers extractive summarisation in a comparative setting: given two or more document groups (e.g., separated by publication time), the goal is to select a small number of documents that are representative of each group, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Umanga Bista , Alexander Mathews , Minjeong Shin , Aditya Krishna Menon , Lexing Xie

While document summarization with LLMs has enhanced access to textual information, concerns about the factual accuracy of these summaries persist, especially in the medical domain. Tracing evidence from which summaries are derived enables…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Bohao Chu , Meijie Li , Sameh Frihat , Chengyu Gu , Georg Lodde , Elisabeth Livingstone , Norbert Fuhr

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in generating user summaries from a long list of raw user activity data. These summaries capture essential user information such as preferences and interests, and therefore are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Chao Wang , Neo Wu , Lin Ning , Jiaxing Wu , Luyang Liu , Jun Xie , Shawn O'Banion , Bradley Green

The ubiquitous availability of computing devices and the widespread use of the internet have generated a large amount of data continuously. Therefore, the amount of available information on any given topic is far beyond humans' processing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Samira Ghodratnama

Modern multi-document summarization (MDS) methods are based on transformer architectures. They generate state of the art summaries, but lack explainability. We focus on graph-based transformer models for MDS as they gained recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-08 M. Lautaro Hickmann , Fabian Wurzberger , Megi Hoxhalli , Arne Lochner , Jessica Töllich , Ansgar Scherp

Prior work in document summarization has mainly focused on generating short summaries of a document. While this type of summary helps get a high-level view of a given document, it is desirable in some cases to know more detailed information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Sajad Sotudeh , Arman Cohan , Nazli Goharian

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

In a citation graph, adjacent paper nodes share related scientific terms and topics. The graph thus conveys unique structure information of document-level relatedness that can be utilized in the paper summarization task, for exploring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Xiuying Chen , Mingzhe Li , Shen Gao , Rui Yan , Xin Gao , Xiangliang Zhang

Multi-document summarization (MDS) is the task of reflecting key points from any set of documents into a concise text paragraph. In the past, it has been used to aggregate news, tweets, product reviews, etc. from various sources. Owing to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Alvin Dey , Tanya Chowdhury , Yash Kumar Atri , Tanmoy Chakraborty

We show that a simple unsupervised masking objective can approach near supervised performance on abstractive multi-document news summarization. Our method trains a state-of-the-art neural summarization model to predict the masked out source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Nikolai Vogler , Songlin Li , Yujie Xu , Yujian Mi , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Unsupervised extractive summarization is an important technique in information extraction and retrieval. Compared with supervised method, it does not require high-quality human-labelled summaries for training and thus can be easily applied…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Renlong Jie , Xiaojun Meng , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu

Document clustering is an unsupervised approach in which a large collection of documents (corpus) is subdivided into smaller, meaningful, identifiable, and verifiable sub-groups (clusters). Meaningful representation of documents and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-12-08 Muhammad Rafi , Farnaz Amin , Mohammad Shahid Shaikh

The development of summarization research has been significantly hampered by the costly acquisition of reference summaries. This paper proposes an effective way to automatically collect large scales of news-related multi-document summaries…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Ziqiang Cao , Chengyao Chen , Wenjie Li , Sujian Li , Furu Wei , Ming Zhou

We present a novel system providing summaries for Computer Science publications. Through a qualitative user study, we identified the most valuable scenarios for discovery, exploration and understanding of scientific documents. Based on…

Automatic summarization with pre-trained language models has led to impressively fluent results, but is prone to 'hallucinations', low performance on non-news genres, and outputs which are not exactly summaries. Targeting ACL 2023's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Yang Janet Liu , Amir Zeldes

In recent years, automatic text summarization has witnessed significant advancement, particularly with the development of transformer-based models. However, the challenge of controlling the readability level of generated summaries remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Mehmet Samet Duran , Tevfik Aytekin