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The increased prevalence of online meetings has significantly enhanced the practicality of a model that can automatically generate the summary of a given meeting. This paper introduces a novel and effective approach to automate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Logan Golia , Jugal Kalita

Meeting summarization is crucial in digital communication, but existing solutions struggle with salience identification to generate personalized, workable summaries, and context understanding to fully comprehend the meetings' content.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Frederic Kirstein , Terry Ruas , Robert Kratel , Bela Gipp

In this research work, we present a method to generate summaries of long scientific documents that uses the advantages of both extractive and abstractive approaches. Before producing a summary in an abstractive manner, we perform the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Vladislav Tretyak , Denis Stepanov

Human conversations can evolve in many different ways, creating challenges for automatic understanding and summarization. Goal-oriented conversations often have meaningful sub-dialogue structure, but it can be highly domain-dependent. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Bo-Ru Lu , Yushi Hu , Hao Cheng , Noah A. Smith , Mari Ostendorf

Retrieval-augmented language models can better adapt to changes in world state and incorporate long-tail knowledge. However, most existing methods retrieve only short contiguous chunks from a retrieval corpus, limiting holistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Parth Sarthi , Salman Abdullah , Aditi Tuli , Shubh Khanna , Anna Goldie , Christopher D. Manning

We present a novel abstractive summarization framework that draws on the recent development of a treebank for the Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR). In this framework, the source text is parsed to a set of AMR graphs, the graphs are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Fei Liu , Jeffrey Flanigan , Sam Thomson , Norman Sadeh , Noah A. Smith

Abstractive Speech Summarization (SSum) aims to generate human-like text summaries from spoken content. It encounters difficulties in handling long speech input and capturing the intricate cross-modal mapping between long speech inputs and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Hengchao Shang , Zongyao Li , Jiaxin Guo , Shaojun Li , Zhiqiang Rao , Yuanchang Luo , Daimeng Wei , Hao Yang

Some exciting new approaches to neural architectures for the analysis of conversation have been introduced over the past couple of years. These include neural architectures for detecting emotion, dialogue acts, and sentiment polarity. They…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Chloé Clavel , Matthieu Labeau , Justine Cassell

High-quality dialogue-summary paired data is expensive to produce and domain-sensitive, making abstractive dialogue summarization a challenging task. In this work, we propose the first unsupervised abstractive dialogue summarization model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Xinyuan Zhang , Ruiyi Zhang , Manzil Zaheer , Amr Ahmed

Summarization is one of the key features of human intelligence. It plays an important role in understanding and representation. With rapid and continual expansion of texts, pictures and videos in cyberspace, automatic summarization becomes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-07-02 Hai Zhuge

Topic-controllable summarization is an emerging research area with a wide range of potential applications. However, existing approaches suffer from significant limitations. For example, the majority of existing methods built upon recurrent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Tatiana Passali , Grigorios Tsoumakas

Abstractive summarization systems aim to produce more coherent and concise summaries than their extractive counterparts. Popular neural models have achieved impressive results for single-document summarization, yet their outputs are often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Eva Sharma , Luyang Huang , Zhe Hu , Lu Wang

Sentences produced by abstractive summarization systems can be ungrammatical and fail to preserve the original meanings, despite being locally fluent. In this paper we propose to remedy this problem by jointly generating a sentence and its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Kaiqiang Song , Logan Lebanoff , Qipeng Guo , Xipeng Qiu , Xiangyang Xue , Chen Li , Dong Yu , Fei Liu

With more and more meetings moving to a digital domain, meeting summarization has recently gained interest in both academic and commercial research. However, prior academic research focuses on meeting summarization as an offline task,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Felix Schneider , Marco Turchi , Alex Waibel

Automatic summarization is the process of shortening a set of textual data computationally, to create a subset (a summary) that represents the most important pieces of information in the original text. Existing summarization methods can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Meng Cao

Speech summarisation techniques take human speech as input and then output an abridged version as text or speech. Speech summarisation has applications in many domains from information technology to health care, for example improving speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Dana Rezazadegan , Shlomo Berkovsky , Juan C. Quiroz , A. Baki Kocaballi , Ying Wang , Liliana Laranjo , Enrico Coiera

Summarization of speech is a difficult problem due to the spontaneity of the flow, disfluencies, and other issues that are not usually encountered in written texts. Our work presents the first application of the BERTSum model to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Alexandra Savelieva , Bryan Au-Yeung , Vasanth Ramani

Multi-sentence summarization is a well studied problem in NLP, while generating image descriptions for a single image is a well studied problem in Computer Vision. However, for applications such as image cluster labeling or web page…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Nicholas Trieu , Sebastian Goodman , Pradyumna Narayana , Kazoo Sone , Radu Soricut

The anthology of spoken languages today is inundated with textual information, necessitating the development of automatic summarization models. In this manuscript, we propose an extractor-paraphraser based abstractive summarization system…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Anubhav Jangra , Raghav Jain , Vaibhav Mavi , Sriparna Saha , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Dialogue summarization comes with its own peculiar challenges as opposed to news or scientific articles summarization. In this work, we explore four different challenges of the task: handling and differentiating parts of the dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Muhammad Khalifa , Miguel Ballesteros , Kathleen McKeown