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We propose an abstraction-based multi-document summarization framework that can construct new sentences by exploring more fine-grained syntactic units than sentences, namely, noun/verb phrases. Different from existing abstraction-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Lidong Bing , Piji Li , Yi Liao , Wai Lam , Weiwei Guo , Rebecca J. Passonneau

Abstractive summarization systems generally rely on large collections of document-summary pairs. However, the performance of abstractive systems remains a challenge due to the unavailability of parallel data for low-resource languages like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Radia Rayan Chowdhury , Mir Tafseer Nayeem , Tahsin Tasnim Mim , Md. Saifur Rahman Chowdhury , Taufiqul Jannat

In recent years, text summarization methods have attracted much attention again thanks to the researches on neural network models. Most of the current text summarization methods based on neural network models are supervised methods which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Dehao Tao , Yingzhu Xiong , Zhongliang Yang , Yongfeng Huang

Unsupervised extractive document summarization aims to select important sentences from a document without using labeled summaries during training. Existing methods are mostly graph-based with sentences as nodes and edge weights measured by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Shusheng Xu , Xingxing Zhang , Yi Wu , Furu Wei , Ming Zhou

In the scenario of unsupervised extractive summarization, learning high-quality sentence representations is essential to select salient sentences from the input document. Previous studies focus more on employing statistical approaches or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Chen Lin , Ye Liu , Siyu An , Di Yin

Obtaining training data for multi-document summarization (MDS) is time consuming and resource-intensive, so recent neural models can only be trained for limited domains. In this paper, we propose SummPip: an unsupervised method for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Jinming Zhao , Ming Liu , Longxiang Gao , Yuan Jin , Lan Du , He Zhao , He Zhang , Gholamreza Haffari

Graph-based semi-supervised learning has proven to be an effective approach for query-focused multi-document summarization. The problem of previous semi-supervised learning is that sentences are ranked without considering the higher level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-01-03 Jiwei Li , Sujian Li

Unsupervised summarization is a powerful technique that enables training summarizing models without requiring labeled datasets. This survey covers different recent techniques and models used for unsupervised summarization. We cover…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Mohammad Khosravani , Amine Trabelsi

Automatic text summarization (ATS) has recently achieved impressive performance thanks to recent advances in deep learning and the availability of large-scale corpora. To make the summarization results more faithful, this paper presents an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Shengluan Hou , Ruqian Lu

Dialogue summarization aims to distill the core meaning of a conversation into a concise text. This is crucial for reducing the complexity and noise inherent in dialogue-heavy applications. While recent approaches typically train language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Mohamed Imed Eddine Ghebriout , Gaël Guibon , Ivan Lerner , Emmanuel Vincent

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

Inspired by how humans summarize long documents, we propose an accurate and fast summarization model that first selects salient sentences and then rewrites them abstractively (i.e., compresses and paraphrases) to generate a concise overall…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Yen-Chun Chen , Mohit Bansal

This paper addresses the problem of summarizing decisions in spoken meetings: our goal is to produce a concise {\it decision abstract} for each meeting decision. We explore and compare token-level and dialogue act-level automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Lu Wang , Claire Cardie

Graph-based extractive document summarization relies on the quality of the sentence similarity graph. Bag-of-words or tf-idf based sentence similarity uses exact word matching, but fails to measure the semantic similarity between individual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Zhuolin Jiang , Manaj Srivastava , Sanjay Krishna , David Akodes , Richard Schwartz

Unlike well-structured text, such as news reports and encyclopedia articles, dialogue content often comes from two or more interlocutors, exchanging information with each other. In such a scenario, the topic of a conversation can vary upon…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Junpeng Liu , Yanyan Zou , Hainan Zhang , Hongshen Chen , Zhuoye Ding , Caixia Yuan , Xiaojie Wang

Text summarization is one of the most challenging and interesting problems in NLP. Although much attention has been paid to summarizing structured text like news reports or encyclopedia articles, summarizing conversations---an essential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Jiaao Chen , Diyi Yang

We propose an unsupervised keyphrase extraction model that encodes topical information within a multipartite graph structure. Our model represents keyphrase candidates and topics in a single graph and exploits their mutually reinforcing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Florian Boudin

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

Sentence summarization shortens given texts while maintaining core contents of the texts. Unsupervised approaches have been studied to summarize texts without human-written summaries. However, recent unsupervised models are extractive,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Dongmin Hyun , Xiting Wang , Chanyoung Park , Xing Xie , Hwanjo Yu

Traditional approaches to extractive summarization rely heavily on human-engineered features. In this work we propose a data-driven approach based on neural networks and continuous sentence features. We develop a general framework for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Jianpeng Cheng , Mirella Lapata