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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

We present HowSumm, a novel large-scale dataset for the task of query-focused multi-document summarization (qMDS), which targets the use-case of generating actionable instructions from a set of sources. This use-case is different from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Odellia Boni , Guy Feigenblat , Guy Lev , Michal Shmueli-Scheuer , Benjamin Sznajder , David Konopnicki

Extracting summaries from long documents can be regarded as sentence classification using the structural information of the documents. How to use such structural information to summarize a document is challenging. In this paper, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Junyi Bian , Xiaodi Huang , Hong Zhou , Shanfeng Zhu

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

Scientific document summarization has been a challenging task due to the long structure of the input text. The long input hinders the simultaneous effective modeling of both global high-order relations between sentences and local…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Chenlong Zhao , Xiwen Zhou , Xiaopeng Xie , Yong Zhang

Multi-document summarization (MDS) refers to the task of summarizing the text in multiple documents into a concise summary. The generated summary can save the time of reading many documents by providing the important content in the form of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Mohamed Trabelsi , Huseyin Uzunalioglu

Automatic summarisation is a popular approach to reduce a document to its main arguments. Recent research in the area has focused on neural approaches to summarisation, which can be very data-hungry. However, few large datasets exist and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Ed Collins , Isabelle Augenstein , Sebastian Riedel

Cross-Lingual Summarization (CLS) is the task to generate a summary in one language for an article in a different language. Previous studies on CLS mainly take pipeline methods or train the end-to-end model using the translated parallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Shuyu Jiang , Dengbiao Tu , Xingshu Chen , Rui Tang , Wenxian Wang , Haizhou Wang

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

Automatic text summarization methods generate a shorter version of the input text to assist the reader in gaining a quick yet informative gist. Existing text summarization methods generally focus on a single aspect of text when selecting…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Ensieh Davoodijam , Nasser Ghadiri , Maryam Lotfi Shahreza , Fabio Rinaldi

Knowledge in materials science is widely dispersed across extensive scientific literature, posing significant challenges to the efficient discovery and integration of new materials. Traditional methods, often reliant on costly and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yanpeng Ye , Jie Ren , Shaozhou Wang , Yuwei Wan , Imran Razzak , Bram Hoex , Haofen Wang , Tong Xie , Wenjie Zhang

Multi-document summarization is a process of automatic generation of a compressed version of the given collection of documents. Recently, the graph-based models and ranking algorithms have been actively investigated by the extractive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-06-02 Ercan Canhasi

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

We often summarize a multi-party conversation in two stages: chunking with homogeneous units and summarizing the chunks. Thus, we hypothesize that there exists a correlation between homogeneous speaker chunking and overall summarization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Anisha Saha , Abhisek Tiwari , Sai Ruthvik , Sriparna Saha

A structural graph summary is a small graph representation that preserves structural information necessary for a given task. The summary is used instead of the original graph to complete the task faster. We introduce multi-view structural…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Jonatan Frank , Andor Diera , David Richerby , Ansgar Scherp

This paper is aimed at evaluating state-of-the-art models for Multi-document Summarization (MDS) on different types of datasets in various domains and investigating the limitations of existing models to determine future research directions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Kushan Hewapathirana , Nisansa de Silva , C. D. Athuraliya

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

The continuous growth of scientific literature brings innovations and, at the same time, raises new challenges. One of them is related to the fact that its analysis has become difficult due to the high volume of published papers for which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Danilo Dessì , Francesco Osborne , Diego Reforgiato Recupero , Davide Buscaldi , Enrico Motta

Concept maps can be used to concisely represent important information and bring structure into large document collections. Therefore, we study a variant of multi-document summarization that produces summaries in the form of concept maps.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Tobias Falke , Iryna Gurevych

Faceted summarization provides briefings of a document from different perspectives. Readers can quickly comprehend the main points of a long document with the help of a structured outline. However, little research has been conducted on this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Rui Meng , Khushboo Thaker , Lei Zhang , Yue Dong , Xingdi Yuan , Tong Wang , Daqing He