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Abstractive text summarization aims at compressing the information of a long source document into a rephrased, condensed summary. Despite advances in modeling techniques, abstractive summarization models still suffer from several key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Vidhisha Balachandran , Artidoro Pagnoni , Jay Yoon Lee , Dheeraj Rajagopal , Jaime Carbonell , Yulia Tsvetkov

Document summarization condenses a long document into a short version with salient information and accurate semantic descriptions. The main issue is how to make the output summary semantically consistent with the input document. To reach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Mingyang Song , Liping Jing

To steer language models towards truthful outputs on tasks which are beyond human capability, previous work has suggested training models on easy tasks to steer them on harder ones (easy-to-hard generalization), or using unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Callum Canavan , Aditya Shrivastava , Allison Qi , Jonathan Michala , Fabien Roger

Text summarization condenses a text to a shorter version while retaining the important informations. Abstractive summarization is a recent development that generates new phrases, rather than simply copying or rephrasing sentences within the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-06 André Cibils , Claudiu Musat , Andreea Hossman , Michael Baeriswyl

Selecting input features of top relevance has become a popular method for building self-explaining models. In this work, we extend this selective rationalization approach to text matching, where the goal is to jointly select and align text…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Kyle Swanson , Lili Yu , Tao Lei

Remarkable success has been achieved in the last few years on some limited machine reading comprehension (MRC) tasks. However, it is still difficult to interpret the predictions of existing MRC models. In this paper, we focus on extracting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Hai Wang , Dian Yu , Kai Sun , Jianshu Chen , Dong Yu , David McAllester , Dan Roth

We study the problem of event extraction from text data, which requires both detecting target event types and their arguments. Typically, both the event detection and argument detection subtasks are formulated as supervised sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Rui Feng , Jie Yuan , Chao Zhang

Abstractive text summarization is a highly difficult problem, and the sequence-to-sequence model has shown success in improving the performance on the task. However, the generated summaries are often inconsistent with the source content in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Bingzhen Wei , Xuancheng Ren , Xu Sun , Yi Zhang , Xiaoyan Cai , Qi Su

We address the problem of unsupervised extractive document summarization, especially for long documents. We model the unsupervised problem as a sparse auto-regression one and approximate the resulting combinatorial problem via a convex,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Alicia Y. Tsai , Laurent El Ghaoui

A challenging task when generating summaries of legal documents is the ability to address their argumentative nature. We introduce a simple technique to capture the argumentative structure of legal documents by integrating argument role…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Mohamed Elaraby , Diane Litman

Summaries of meetings are very important as they convey the essential content of discussions in a concise form. Generally, it is time consuming to read and understand the whole documents. Therefore, summaries play an important role as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Siddhartha Banerjee , Prasenjit Mitra , Kazunari Sugiyama

Keyphrase extraction from a given document is the task of automatically extracting salient phrases that best describe the document. This paper proposes a novel unsupervised graph-based ranking method to extract high-quality phrases from a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Venktesh V , Mukesh Mohania , Vikram Goyal

Extractive text summarization aims at extracting the most representative sentences from a given document as its summary. To extract a good summary from a long text document, sentence embedding plays an important role. Recent studies have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Baoyu Jing , Zeyu You , Tao Yang , Wei Fan , Hanghang Tong

A conditional sampling oracle for a probability distribution D returns samples from the conditional distribution of D restricted to a specified subset of the domain. A recent line of work (Chakraborty et al. 2013 and Cannone et al. 2014)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-18 Themistoklis Gouleakis , Christos Tzamos , Manolis Zampetakis

We propose a method for unsupervised opinion summarization that encodes sentences from customer reviews into a hierarchical discrete latent space, then identifies common opinions based on the frequency of their encodings. We are able to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Tom Hosking , Hao Tang , Mirella Lapata

Extractive methods have been proven effective in automatic document summarization. Previous works perform this task by identifying informative contents at sentence level. However, it is unclear whether performing extraction at sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Qingyu Zhou , Furu Wei , Ming Zhou

Legal document summarization represents a significant advancement towards improving judicial efficiency through the automation of key information detection. Our approach leverages state-of-the-art natural language processing techniques to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Yongjie Li , Ruilin Nong , Jianan Liu , Lucas Evans

Steady progress has been made in abstractive summarization with attention-based sequence-to-sequence learning models. In this paper, we propose a new decoder where the output summary is generated by conditioning on both the input text and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Melissa Ailem , Bowen Zhang , Fei Sha

One of the most pressing issues that have arisen due to the rapid growth of the Internet is known as information overloading. Simplifying the relevant information in the form of a summary will assist many people because the material on any…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Divakar Yadav , Jalpa Desai , Arun Kumar Yadav

The recent years have seen remarkable success in the use of deep neural networks on text summarization. However, there is no clear understanding of \textit{why} they perform so well, or \textit{how} they might be improved. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Ming Zhong , Pengfei Liu , Danqing Wang , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang