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Abstractive dialogue summarization is to generate a concise and fluent summary covering the salient information in a dialogue among two or more interlocutors. It has attracted great attention in recent years based on the massive emergence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Qi Jia , Yizhu Liu , Siyu Ren , Kenny Q. Zhu

Existing approaches to automatic summarization assume that a length limit for the summary is given, and view content selection as an optimization problem to maximize informativeness and minimize redundancy within this budget. This framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Jingyun Liu , Jackie C. K. Cheung , Annie Louis

Dialogue summarization aims to generate a summary that indicates the key points of a given dialogue. In this work, we propose an end-to-end neural model for dialogue summarization with two novel modules, namely, the \emph{supporting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Wang Chen , Piji Li , Hou Pong Chan , Irwin King

In this paper, we aim to improve abstractive dialogue summarization quality and, at the same time, enable granularity control. Our model has two primary components and stages: 1) a two-stage generation strategy that generates a preliminary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Chien-Sheng Wu , Linqing Liu , Wenhao Liu , Pontus Stenetorp , Caiming Xiong

Previous dialogue summarization techniques adapt large language models pretrained on the narrative text by injecting dialogue-specific features into the models. These features either require additional knowledge to recognize or make the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Qi Jia , Yizhu Liu , Haifeng Tang , Kenny Q. Zhu

We report the results of DialogSum Challenge, the shared task on summarizing real-life scenario dialogues at INLG 2022. Four teams participate in this shared task and three submit their system reports, exploring different methods to improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Yulong Chen , Naihao Deng , Yang Liu , Yue Zhang

Dialogue summarization aims to condense the lengthy dialogue into a concise summary, and has recently achieved significant progress. However, the result of existing methods is still far from satisfactory. Previous works indicated that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Yicheng Zou , Kaitao Song , Xu Tan , Zhongkai Fu , Qi Zhang , Dongsheng Li , Tao Gui

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit powerful summarization abilities. However, their capabilities on conversational summarization remains under explored. In this work we evaluate LLMs (approx. 10 billion parameters) on conversational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Ramesh Manuvinakurike , Saurav Sahay , Sangeeta Manepalli , Lama Nachman

In this paper, we propose a controllable neural generation framework that can flexibly guide dialogue summarization with personal named entity planning. The conditional sequences are modulated to decide what types of information or what…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Zhengyuan Liu , Nancy F. Chen

Text summarization is one of the most challenging and interesting problems in NLP. Although much attention has been paid to summarizing structured text like news reports or encyclopedia articles, summarizing conversations---an essential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Jiaao Chen , Diyi Yang

A medical provider's summary of a patient visit serves several critical purposes, including clinical decision-making, facilitating hand-offs between providers, and as a reference for the patient. An effective summary is required to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Varun Nair , Elliot Schumacher , Anitha Kannan

Long document summarization poses a significant challenge in natural language processing due to input lengths that exceed the capacity of most state-of-the-art pre-trained language models. This study proposes a hierarchical framework that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yuan-Jhe Yin , Bo-Yu Chen , Berlin Chen

The summarization of conversation, that is, discourse over discourse, elevates pragmatic considerations as a pervasive limitation of both summarization and other applications of contemporary conversational AI. Building on impressive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-01 S. M. Seals , Valerie L. Shalin

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

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise for automatic summarization but the reasons behind their successes are poorly understood. By conducting a human evaluation on ten LLMs across different pretraining methods, prompts, and model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Tianyi Zhang , Faisal Ladhak , Esin Durmus , Percy Liang , Kathleen McKeown , Tatsunori B. Hashimoto

Speech summarization has become an essential tool for efficiently managing and accessing the growing volume of spoken and audiovisual content. However, despite its increasing importance, speech summarization remains loosely defined. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Fabian Retkowski , Maike Züfle , Andreas Sudmann , Dinah Pfau , Shinji Watanabe , Jan Niehues , Alexander Waibel

In a customer service system, dialogue summarization can boost service efficiency by automatically creating summaries for long spoken dialogues in which customers and agents try to address issues about specific topics. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Yicheng Zou , Lujun Zhao , Yangyang Kang , Jun Lin , Minlong Peng , Zhuoren Jiang , Changlong Sun , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang , Xiaozhong Liu

Reproducibility in scientific research, particularly within the realm of natural language processing (NLP), is essential for validating and verifying the robustness of experimental findings. This paper delves into the reproduction and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yugandhar Reddy Gogireddy , Jithendra Reddy Gogireddy

Abstractive dialogue summarization is the task of distilling conversations into informative and concise summaries. Although reviews have been conducted on this topic, there is a lack of comprehensive work detailing the challenges of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Frederic Kirstein , Jan Philip Wahle , Bela Gipp , Terry Ruas

Personalized opinion summarization is crucial as it considers individual user interests while generating product summaries. Recent studies show that although large language models demonstrate powerful text summarization and evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yanyue Zhang , Yulan He , Deyu Zhou