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This paper introduces ReflectSumm, a novel summarization dataset specifically designed for summarizing students' reflective writing. The goal of ReflectSumm is to facilitate developing and evaluating novel summarization techniques tailored…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yang Zhong , Mohamed Elaraby , Diane Litman , Ahmed Ashraf Butt , Muhsin Menekse

We present MLSUM, the first large-scale MultiLingual SUMmarization dataset. Obtained from online newspapers, it contains 1.5M+ article/summary pairs in five different languages -- namely, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish. Together…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Thomas Scialom , Paul-Alexis Dray , Sylvain Lamprier , Benjamin Piwowarski , Jacopo Staiano

With the advent of large language models, methods for abstractive summarization have made great strides, creating potential for use in applications to aid knowledge workers processing unwieldy document collections. One such setting is the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Zejiang Shen , Kyle Lo , Lauren Yu , Nathan Dahlberg , Margo Schlanger , Doug Downey

Recent work has suggested that end-to-end system designs for cross-lingual summarization are competitive solutions that perform on par or even better than traditional pipelined designs. A closer look at the evidence reveals that this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Daniel Varab , Christian Hardmeier

The emergence of instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs) has advanced the field of dialogue systems, enabling both realistic user simulations and robust multi-turn conversational agents. However, existing research often evaluates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Chalamalasetti Kranti , Sherzod Hakimov , David Schlangen

Output length is critical to dialogue summarization systems. The dialogue summary length is determined by multiple factors, including dialogue complexity, summary objective, and personal preferences. In this work, we approach dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Bin Wang , Chen Zhang , Chengwei Wei , Haizhou Li

Summarizing text-rich documents has been long studied in the literature, but most of the existing efforts have been made to summarize a static and predefined multi-document set. With the rapid development of online platforms for generating…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Susik Yoon , Hou Pong Chan , Jiawei Han

The core challenge faced by multi-document summarization is the complexity of relationships among documents and the presence of information redundancy. Graph clustering is an effective paradigm for addressing this issue, as it models the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Yongbing Zhang , Fang Nan , Shengxiang Gao , Yuxin Huang , Kaiwen Tan , Zhengtao Yu

We present PeerSum, a novel dataset for generating meta-reviews of scientific papers. The meta-reviews can be interpreted as abstractive summaries of reviews, multi-turn discussions and the paper abstract. These source documents have rich…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Miao Li , Eduard Hovy , Jey Han Lau

Dialogue segmentation is a crucial task for dialogue systems allowing a better understanding of conversational texts. Despite recent progress in unsupervised dialogue segmentation methods, their performances are limited by the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Junfeng Jiang , Chengzhang Dong , Sadao Kurohashi , Akiko Aizawa

Online conversations have become more prevalent on public discussion platforms (e.g. Reddit). With growing controversial topics, it is desirable to summarize not only diverse arguments, but also their rationale and justification. Early…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-24 An Quang Tang , Xiuzhen Zhang , Minh Ngoc Dinh , Zhuang Li

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

Meetings are a key component of human collaboration. As increasing numbers of meetings are recorded and transcribed, meeting summaries have become essential to remind those who may or may not have attended the meetings about the key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Ming Zhong , Da Yin , Tao Yu , Ahmad Zaidi , Mutethia Mutuma , Rahul Jha , Ahmed Hassan Awadallah , Asli Celikyilmaz , Yang Liu , Xipeng Qiu , Dragomir Radev

Dialog summarization has become increasingly important in managing and comprehending large-scale conversations across various domains. This task presents unique challenges in capturing the key points, context, and nuances of multi-turn long…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Ankan Mullick , Ayan Kumar Bhowmick , Raghav R , Ravi Kokku , Prasenjit Dey , Pawan Goyal , Niloy Ganguly

Recent advances in text summarization have predominantly leveraged large language models to generate concise summaries. However, language models often do not maintain long-term discourse structure, especially in news articles, where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Alexander Spangher , Tenghao Huang , Jialiang Gu , Jiatong Shi , Muhao Chen

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

Text summarization tasks commonly employ Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) to fit diverse standard datasets. While these PLMs excel in automatic evaluations, they frequently underperform in human evaluations, indicating a deviation between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Yang Han , Yiming Wang , Rui Wang , Lu Chen , Kai Yu

This paper describes PULSAR, our system submission at the ImageClef 2023 MediQA-Sum task on summarising patient-doctor dialogues into clinical records. The proposed framework relies on domain-specific pre-training, to produce a specialised…

Dialogue summarization aims to condense a given dialogue into a simple and focused summary text. Typically, both the roles' viewpoints and conversational topics change in the dialogue stream. Thus how to effectively handle the shifting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Xinnian Liang , Shuangzhi Wu , Chenhao Cui , Jiaqi Bai , Chao Bian , Zhoujun Li

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