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Automatic abstractive summaries are found to often distort or fabricate facts in the article. This inconsistency between summary and original text has seriously impacted its applicability. We propose a fact-aware summarization model FASum…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Chenguang Zhu , William Hinthorn , Ruochen Xu , Qingkai Zeng , Michael Zeng , Xuedong Huang , Meng Jiang

Factual consistency is one of the most important requirements when editing high quality documents. It is extremely important for automatic text generation systems like summarization, question answering, dialog modeling, and language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Tathagata Raha , Mukund Choudhary , Abhinav Menon , Harshit Gupta , KV Aditya Srivatsa , Manish Gupta , Vasudeva Varma

Scoring the factuality of a generated summary involves measuring the degree to which a target text contains factual information using the input document as support. Given the similarities in the problem formulation, previous work has shown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-01 John Glover , Federico Fancellu , Vasudevan Jagannathan , Matthew R. Gormley , Thomas Schaaf

Improving factual consistency of abstractive summarization has been a widely studied topic. However, most of the prior works on training factuality-aware models have ignored the negative effect it has on summary quality. We propose EFACTSUM…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Tanay Dixit , Fei Wang , Muhao Chen

Recent advancements in text summarization, particularly with the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs), have shown remarkable performance. However, a notable challenge persists as a substantial number of automatically-generated summaries…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Alessandro Scirè , Karim Ghonim , Roberto Navigli

Modern summarization models generate highly fluent but often factually unreliable outputs. This motivated a surge of metrics attempting to measure the factuality of automatically generated summaries. Due to the lack of common benchmarks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Artidoro Pagnoni , Vidhisha Balachandran , Yulia Tsvetkov

A key challenge for abstractive summarization is ensuring factual consistency of the generated summary with respect to the original document. For example, state-of-the-art models trained on existing datasets exhibit entity hallucination,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Feng Nan , Ramesh Nallapati , Zhiguo Wang , Cicero Nogueira dos Santos , Henghui Zhu , Dejiao Zhang , Kathleen McKeown , Bing Xiang

Hallucinations in text generation occur when the system produces text that is not grounded in the input. In this work, we tackle the problem of hallucinations in neural chart summarization. Our analysis shows that the target side of chart…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Saad Obaid ul Islam , Iza Škrjanec , Ondřej Dušek , Vera Demberg

We study generating abstractive summaries that are faithful and factually consistent with the given articles. A novel contrastive learning formulation is presented, which leverages both reference summaries, as positive training data, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Shuyang Cao , Lu Wang

We explore the need for more comprehensive and precise evaluation techniques for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in text summarization tasks, specifically in the area of opinion summarization. Traditional methods, which leverage…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Leandro Anghinoni , Jorge Sanchez

Text summarizing is a critical Natural Language Processing (NLP) task with applications ranging from information retrieval to content generation. Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable promise in generating fluent abstractive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Colleen Gilhuly , Haleh Shahzad

Existing approaches to constructing training data for Natural Language Inference (NLI) tasks, such as for semi-structured table reasoning, are either via crowdsourcing or fully automatic methods. However, the former is expensive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Dibyakanti Kumar , Vivek Gupta , Soumya Sharma , Shuo Zhang

Grounded text generation systems often generate text that contains factual inconsistencies, hindering their real-world applicability. Automatic factual consistency evaluation may help alleviate this limitation by accelerating evaluation…

Abstractive summarization using large language models (LLMs) has become an essential tool for condensing information. However, despite their ability to generate fluent summaries, these models sometimes produce unfaithful summaries,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sicong Huang , Qianqi Yan , Shengze Wang , Ian Lane

Text Summarization is recognised as one of the NLP downstream tasks and it has been extensively investigated in recent years. It can assist people with perceiving the information rapidly from the Internet, including news articles, social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Guan Wang , Weihua Li , Edmund Lai , Jianhua Jiang

Text summarization is crucial for mitigating information overload across domains like journalism, medicine, and business. This research evaluates summarization performance across 17 large language models (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Anantharaman Janakiraman , Behnaz Ghoraani

Factual inconsistencies in generated summaries severely limit the practical applications of abstractive dialogue summarization. Although significant progress has been achieved by using pre-trained models, substantial amounts of hallucinated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Xiangru Tang , Arjun Nair , Borui Wang , Bingyao Wang , Jai Desai , Aaron Wade , Haoran Li , Asli Celikyilmaz , Yashar Mehdad , Dragomir Radev

A growing body of work shows that models exploit annotation artifacts to achieve state-of-the-art performance on standard crowdsourced benchmarks---datasets collected from crowdworkers to create an evaluation task---while still failing on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 William Huang , Haokun Liu , Samuel R. Bowman

Neural abstractive summarization models make summaries in an end-to-end manner, and little is known about how the source information is actually converted into summaries. In this paper, we define input sentences that contain essential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Yoshi Suhara , Dimitris Alikaniotis

Despite being able to generate fluent and grammatical text, current Seq2Seq summarization models still suffering from the unfaithful generation problem. In this paper, we study the faithfulness of existing systems from a new perspective of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Wenhao Wu , Wei Li , Jiachen Liu , Xinyan Xiao , Ziqiang Cao , Sujian Li , Hua Wu