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Building automatic technical support system is an important yet challenge task. Conceptually, to answer a user question on a technical forum, a human expert has to first retrieve relevant documents, and then read them carefully to identify…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Wenhao Yu , Lingfei Wu , Yu Deng , Qingkai Zeng , Ruchi Mahindru , Sinem Guven , Meng Jiang

Neural abstractive summarization models are prone to generate content inconsistent with the source document, i.e. unfaithful. Existing automatic metrics do not capture such mistakes effectively. We tackle the problem of evaluating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Esin Durmus , He He , Mona Diab

Long document summarization remains a significant challenge for current large language models (LLMs), as existing approaches commonly struggle with information loss, factual inconsistencies, and coherence issues when processing excessively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Weixuan Wang , Minghao Wu , Barry Haddow , Alexandra Birch

Millions of people take surveys every day, from market polls and academic studies to medical questionnaires and customer feedback forms. These datasets capture valuable insights, but their scale and structure present a unique challenge for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Duc-Hai Nguyen , Vijayakumar Nanjappan , Barry O'Sullivan , Hoang D. Nguyen

This paper introduces ReflectSumm, a novel summarization dataset specifically designed for summarizing students' reflective writing. The goal of ReflectSumm is to facilitate developing and evaluating novel summarization techniques tailored…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yang Zhong , Mohamed Elaraby , Diane Litman , Ahmed Ashraf Butt , Muhsin Menekse

While the NLP community has produced numerous summarization benchmarks, none provide the rich annotations required to simultaneously address many important problems related to control and reliability. We introduce a Wikipedia-derived…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Kundan Krishna , Prakhar Gupta , Sanjana Ramprasad , Byron C. Wallace , Jeffrey P. Bigham , Zachary C. Lipton

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable performance across various tasks, prompting researchers to develop diverse evaluation benchmarks. However, most benchmarks typically measure the ability of LLMs to respond to individual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yutao Hou , Yajing Luo , Zhiwen Ruan , Hongru Wang , Weifeng Ge , Yun Chen , Guanhua Chen

Evaluation of QA systems is very challenging and expensive, with the most reliable approach being human annotations of correctness of answers for questions. Recent works (AVA, BEM) have shown that transformer LM encoder based similarity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Matteo Gabburo , Siddhant Garg , Rik Koncel Kedziorski , Alessandro Moschitti

Community Question-Answering (CQA) forums have revolutionized how people seek information, especially those related to their healthcare needs, placing their trust in the collective wisdom of the public. However, there can be several answers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Rochana Chaturvedi , Abari Bhattacharya , Shweta Yadav

Existing multi-document summarization approaches produce a uniform summary for all users without considering individuals' interests, which is highly impractical. Making a user-specific summary is a challenging task as it requires: i)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Samira Ghodratnama , Mehrdad Zakershahrak

Video summarization aims at generating a compact yet representative visual summary that conveys the essence of the original video. The advantage of unsupervised approaches is that they do not require human annotations to learn the…

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At the heart of the Pyramid evaluation method for text summarization lie human written summary content units (SCUs). These SCUs are concise sentences that decompose a summary into small facts. Such SCUs can be used to judge the quality of a…

We present BLANC, a new approach to the automatic estimation of document summary quality. Our goal is to measure the functional performance of a summary with an objective, reproducible, and fully automated method. Our approach achieves this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Oleg Vasilyev , Vedant Dharnidharka , John Bohannon

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

As Large Language Models (LLMs) advance, their potential for widespread societal impact grows simultaneously. Hence, rigorous LLM evaluations are both a technical necessity and social imperative. While numerous evaluation benchmarks have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Jaime Raldua Veuthey , Zainab Ali Majid , Suhas Hariharan , Jacob Haimes

Source code summarizing is a task of writing short, natural language descriptions of source code behavior during run time. Such summaries are extremely useful for software development and maintenance but are expensive to manually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Vivek Gupta

Query-focused summarization (QFS) aims to produce summaries that answer particular questions of interest, enabling greater user control and personalization. While recently released datasets, such as QMSum or AQuaMuSe, facilitate research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Jesse Vig , Alexander R. Fabbri , Wojciech Kryściński , Chien-Sheng Wu , Wenhao Liu

We publicly release a new large-scale dataset, called SearchQA, for machine comprehension, or question-answering. Unlike recently released datasets, such as DeepMind CNN/DailyMail and SQuAD, the proposed SearchQA was constructed to reflect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Matthew Dunn , Levent Sagun , Mike Higgins , V. Ugur Guney , Volkan Cirik , Kyunghyun Cho

Retrieving real-time information is a fundamental capability for search-integrated agents in real-world applications. However, existing benchmarks are predominantly static and therefore fail to capture the temporal dynamics of information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Wenjie Zhou , Yuan Gao , Xin Zhou , Hao Fu , Zhongjian Miao , Wei Chen , Bo Chen , Xiaobing Zhao

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Prompt Engineering have made chatbot customization more accessible, significantly reducing barriers to tasks that previously required programming skills. However, prompt evaluation,…

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