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Abstractive text summarization is a highly difficult problem, and the sequence-to-sequence model has shown success in improving the performance on the task. However, the generated summaries are often inconsistent with the source content in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Bingzhen Wei , Xuancheng Ren , Xu Sun , Yi Zhang , Xiaoyan Cai , Qi Su

Canonical automatic summary evaluation metrics, such as ROUGE, focus on lexical similarity which cannot well capture semantics nor linguistic quality and require a reference summary which is costly to obtain. Recently, there have been a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Forrest Sheng Bao , Hebi Li , Ge Luo , Minghui Qiu , Yinfei Yang , Youbiao He , Cen Chen

Cross-Language Text Summarization (CLTS) generates summaries in a language different from the language of the source documents. Recent methods use information from both languages to generate summaries with the most informative sentences.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Elvys Linhares Pontes , Stéphane Huet , Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno

The goal of a summary is to concisely state the most important information in a document. With this principle in mind, we introduce new reference-free summary evaluation metrics that use a pretrained language model to estimate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Nicholas Egan , Oleg Vasilyev , John Bohannon

Document summarization provides an instrument for faster understanding the collection of text documents and has several real-life applications. With the growth of online text data, numerous summarization models have been proposed recently.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Mingyang Song , Liping Jing

Summarization is a way to represent same information in concise way with equal sense. This can be categorized in two type Abstractive and Extractive type. Our work is focused around Extractive summarization. A generic approach to extractive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Chandra Shekhar Yadav , Aditi Sharan

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

Multi-modal generative document parsing systems challenge traditional evaluation: unlike deterministic OCR or layout models, they often produce semantically correct yet structurally divergent outputs. Conventional metrics-CER, WER, IoU, or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Renyu Li , Antonio Jimeno Yepes , Yao You , Kamil Pluciński , Maximilian Operlejn , Crag Wolfe

Automatic evaluation metrics have been facilitating the rapid development of automatic summarization methods by providing instant and fair assessments of the quality of summaries. Most metrics have been developed for the general domain,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Hongyi Yuan , Yaoyun Zhang , Fei Huang , Songfang Huang

We propose a new approach to generate multiple variants of the target summary with diverse content and varying lengths, then score and select admissible ones according to users' needs. Abstractive summarizers trained on single reference…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Kaiqiang Song , Bingqing Wang , Zhe Feng , Fei Liu

Current abstractive summarization systems present important weaknesses which prevent their deployment in real-world applications, such as the omission of relevant information and the generation of factual inconsistencies (also known as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Diogo Pernes , Afonso Mendes , André F. T. Martins

We introduce SummScreen, a summarization dataset comprised of pairs of TV series transcripts and human written recaps. The dataset provides a challenging testbed for abstractive summarization for several reasons. Plot details are often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Mingda Chen , Zewei Chu , Sam Wiseman , Kevin Gimpel

This paper introduces the SAMSum Corpus, a new dataset with abstractive dialogue summaries. We investigate the challenges it poses for automated summarization by testing several models and comparing their results with those obtained on a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Bogdan Gliwa , Iwona Mochol , Maciej Biesek , Aleksander Wawer

Evaluating sign language generation is often done through back-translation, where generated signs are first recognized back to text and then compared to a reference using text-based metrics. However, this two-step evaluation pipeline…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Saki Imai , Mert İnan , Anthony Sicilia , Malihe Alikhani

Linking facts across documents is a challenging task, as the language used to express the same information in a sentence can vary significantly, which complicates the task of multi-document summarization. Consequently, existing approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Diego Antognini , Boi Faltings

Summarization evaluation remains an open research problem: current metrics such as ROUGE are known to be limited and to correlate poorly with human judgments. To alleviate this issue, recent work has proposed evaluation metrics which rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Thomas Scialom , Paul-Alexis Dray , Patrick Gallinari , Sylvain Lamprier , Benjamin Piwowarski , Jacopo Staiano , Alex Wang

Video summarization is a crucial research area that aims to efficiently browse and retrieve relevant information from the vast amount of video content available today. With the exponential growth of multimedia data, the ability to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Hai-Dang Huynh-Lam , Ngoc-Phuong Ho-Thi , Minh-Triet Tran , Trung-Nghia Le

The task of multi-document summarization (MDS) aims at models that, given multiple documents as input, are able to generate a summary that combines disperse information, originally spread across these documents. Accordingly, it is expected…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Ruben Wolhandler , Arie Cattan , Ori Ernst , Ido Dagan

This paper proposes a medical text summarization method based on LongFormer, aimed at addressing the challenges faced by existing models when processing long medical texts. Traditional summarization methods are often limited by short-term…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Dan Sun , Jacky He , Hanlu Zhang , Zhen Qi , Hongye Zheng , Xiaokai Wang

Video summarization aims to distill the most important information from a source video to produce either an abridged clip or a textual narrative. Traditionally, different methods have been proposed depending on whether the output is a video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Jingyang Lin , Hang Hua , Ming Chen , Yikang Li , Jenhao Hsiao , Chiuman Ho , Jiebo Luo