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Despite recent advancements in automatic summarization, state-of-the-art models do not summarize all documents equally well, raising the question: why? While prior research has extensively analyzed summarization models, little attention has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Steven Koniaev , Ori Ernst , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

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

Medical multi-document summarization (MDS) is a complex task that requires effectively managing cross-document relationships. This paper investigates whether incorporating hierarchical structures in the inputs of MDS can improve a model's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Yi-Li Hsu , Katelyn X. Mei , Lucy Lu Wang

Multi-document summarization aims to obtain core information from a collection of documents written on the same topic. This paper proposes a new holistic framework for unsupervised multi-document extractive summarization. Our method…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Haopeng Zhang , Sangwoo Cho , Kaiqiang Song , Xiaoyang Wang , Hongwei Wang , Jiawei Zhang , Dong Yu

We aim to renew interest in a particular multi-document summarization (MDS) task which we call AgreeSum: agreement-oriented multi-document summarization. Given a cluster of articles, the goal is to provide abstractive summaries that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Richard Yuanzhe Pang , Adam D. Lelkes , Vinh Q. Tran , Cong Yu

Automatic generation of summaries from multiple news articles is a valuable tool as the number of online publications grows rapidly. Single document summarization (SDS) systems have benefited from advances in neural encoder-decoder model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Alexander R. Fabbri , Irene Li , Tianwei She , Suyi Li , Dragomir R. Radev

Neural models for abstractive summarization tend to achieve the best performance in the presence of highly specialized, summarization specific modeling add-ons such as pointer-generator, coverage-modeling, and inferencetime heuristics. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Sebastian Goodman , Zhenzhong Lan , Radu Soricut

With the abundance of automatic meeting transcripts, meeting summarization is of great interest to both participants and other parties. Traditional methods of summarizing meetings depend on complex multi-step pipelines that make joint…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Chenguang Zhu , Ruochen Xu , Michael Zeng , Xuedong Huang

Summarizing texts is not a straightforward task. Before even considering text summarization, one should determine what kind of summary is expected. How much should the information be compressed? Is it relevant to reformulate or should the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Paul Tardy , David Janiszek , Yannick Estève , Vincent Nguyen

Automatic summarization of radiology reports is an essential application to reduce the burden on physicians. Previous studies have widely used the "pre-training, fine-tuning" strategy to adapt large language models (LLMs) for summarization.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Mengxian Lyu , Cheng Peng , Ziyi Chen , Mengyuan Zhang , Jieting Li Lu , Yonghui Wu

We introduce a new pretraining approach geared for multi-document language modeling, incorporating two key ideas into the masked language modeling self-supervised objective. First, instead of considering documents in isolation, we pretrain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Avi Caciularu , Arman Cohan , Iz Beltagy , Matthew E. Peters , Arie Cattan , Ido Dagan

Document summarization is a task to generate afluent, condensed summary for a document, andkeep important information. A cluster of documents serves as the input for multi-document summarizing (MDS), while the cluster summary serves as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Huu-Thin Nguyen , Tam Doan Thanh , Cam-Van Thi Nguyen

A crucial difference between single- and multi-document summarization is how salient content manifests itself in the document(s). While such content may appear at the beginning of a single document, essential information is frequently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Logan Lebanoff , Bingqing Wang , Zhe Feng , Fei Liu

The multi-document summarization task requires the designed summarizer to generate a short text that covers the important information of original documents and satisfies content diversity. This paper proposes a multi-document summarization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Bing Ma

Automatically summarizing large text collections is a valuable tool for document research, with applications in journalism, academic research, legal work, and many other fields. In this work, we contrast two classes of systems for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Adithya Pratapa , Teruko Mitamura

Multi-document summarization (MDS) aims to compress the content in large document collections into short summaries and has important applications in story clustering for newsfeeds, presentation of search results, and timeline generation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Demian Gholipour Ghalandari , Chris Hokamp , Nghia The Pham , John Glover , Georgiana Ifrim

Dialogue summarization has recently garnered significant attention due to its wide range of applications. However, existing methods for summarizing dialogues have limitations because they do not take into account the inherent structure of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Yu Li , Baolin Peng , Pengcheng He , Michel Galley , Zhou Yu , Jianfeng Gao

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

In long document controllable summarization, where labeled data is scarce, pretrained models struggle to adapt to the task and effectively respond to user queries. In this paper, we introduce Socratic pretraining, a question-driven,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Artidoro Pagnoni , Alexander R. Fabbri , Wojciech Kryściński , Chien-Sheng Wu

We investigate the problem of reader-aware multi-document summarization (RA-MDS) and introduce a new dataset for this problem. To tackle RA-MDS, we extend a variational auto-encodes (VAEs) based MDS framework by jointly considering news…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Piji Li , Lidong Bing , Wai Lam