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We introduce SemCSE, an unsupervised method for learning semantic embeddings of scientific texts. Building on recent advances in contrastive learning for text embeddings, our approach leverages LLM-generated summaries of scientific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Marc Brinner , Sina Zarriess

We present OpinionDigest, an abstractive opinion summarization framework, which does not rely on gold-standard summaries for training. The framework uses an Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis model to extract opinion phrases from reviews, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Yoshihiko Suhara , Xiaolan Wang , Stefanos Angelidis , Wang-Chiew Tan

The supervised training of high-capacity models on large datasets containing hundreds of thousands of document-summary pairs is critical to the recent success of deep learning techniques for abstractive summarization. Unfortunately, in most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Reinald Kim Amplayo , Mirella Lapata

Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have been successfully used to probe Large Language Models (LLMs) and extract interpretable concepts from their internal representations. These concepts are linear combinations of neuron activations that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Mathis Le Bail , Jérémie Dentan , Davide Buscaldi , Sonia Vanier

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

We present the Quantized Transformer (QT), an unsupervised system for extractive opinion summarization. QT is inspired by Vector-Quantized Variational Autoencoders, which we repurpose for popularity-driven summarization. It uses a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Stefanos Angelidis , Reinald Kim Amplayo , Yoshihiko Suhara , Xiaolan Wang , Mirella Lapata

Opinion summarization has been traditionally approached with unsupervised, weakly-supervised and few-shot learning techniques. In this work, we collect a large dataset of summaries paired with user reviews for over 31,000 products, enabling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Arthur Bražinskas , Mirella Lapata , Ivan Titov

Sentence scoring and sentence selection are two main steps in extractive document summarization systems. However, previous works treat them as two separated subtasks. In this paper, we present a novel end-to-end neural network framework for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Qingyu Zhou , Nan Yang , Furu Wei , Shaohan Huang , Ming Zhou , Tiejun Zhao

The recent success of deep learning techniques for abstractive summarization is predicated on the availability of large-scale datasets. When summarizing reviews (e.g., for products or movies), such training data is neither available nor can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Reinald Kim Amplayo , Stefanos Angelidis , Mirella Lapata

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

Sentence extraction based summarization methods has some limitations as it doesn't go into the semantics of the document. Also, it lacks the capability of sentence generation which is intuitive to humans. Here we present a novel method to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-06-06 Divyanshu Bhartiya , Ashudeep Singh

We present RepRank, an unsupervised graph-based ranking model for extractive multi-document summarization in which the similarity between words, sentences, and word-to-sentence can be estimated by the distances between their vector…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Zongyi Li , Xiaoqing Zheng , Jun He

Opinion summarisation synthesises opinions expressed in a group of documents discussing the same topic to produce a single summary. Recent work has looked at opinion summarisation of clusters of social media posts. Such posts are noisy and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Jiayu Song , Iman Munire Bilal , Adam Tsakalidis , Rob Procter , Maria Liakata

Contrastive opinion extraction aims to extract a structured summary or key points organised as positive and negative viewpoints towards a common aspect or topic. Most recent works for unsupervised key point extraction is largely built on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Runcong Zhao , Lin Gui , Yulan He

Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis is the most granular form of sentiment analysis that can be performed on the documents / sentences. Besides delivering the most insights at a finer grain, it also poses equally daunting challenges. One of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Pulah Dhandekar , Manu Joseph

We study the problem of generating abstractive summaries for opinionated text. We propose an attention-based neural network model that is able to absorb information from multiple text units to construct informative, concise, and fluent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-10 Lu Wang , Wang Ling

We propose a method for unsupervised abstractive opinion summarization, that combines the attributability and scalability of extractive approaches with the coherence and fluency of Large Language Models (LLMs). Our method, HIRO, learns an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Tom Hosking , Hao Tang , Mirella Lapata

In this paper, we propose two automated text processing frameworks specifically designed to analyze online reviews. The objective of the first framework is to summarize the reviews dataset by extracting essential sentence. This is performed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Xiangpeng Wan , Hakim Ghazzai , Yehia Massoud

We present a submodular function-based framework for query-focused opinion summarization. Within our framework, relevance ordering produced by a statistical ranker, and information coverage with respect to topic distribution and diverse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Lu Wang , Hema Raghavan , Claire Cardie , Vittorio Castelli

In sentence compression, the task of shortening sentences while retaining the original meaning, models tend to be trained on large corpora containing pairs of verbose and compressed sentences. To remove the need for paired corpora, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Thibault Févry , Jason Phang