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Huge volumes of textual information has been produced every single day. In order to organize and understand such large datasets, in recent years, summarization techniques have become popular. These techniques aims at finding relevant,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Jorge V. Tohalino , Diego R. Amancio

Document summarization, as a fundamental task in natural language generation, aims to generate a short and coherent summary for a given document. Controllable summarization, especially of the length, is an important issue for some practical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Mingyang Song , Yi Feng , Liping Jing

The proliferation of data and text documents such as articles, web pages, books, social network posts, etc. on the Internet has created a fundamental challenge in various fields of text processing under the title of "automatic text…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Kazem Taghandiki , Mohammad Hassan Ahmadi , Elnaz Rezaei Ehsan

The automated summarisation of long legal documents can be a great aid for legal experts in their daily work. We automatically create summaries (guiding principles) of German judgments by fine-tuning a decoder-based large language model. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Bianca Steffes , Nils Torben Wiedemann , Alexander Gratz , Pamela Hochreither , Jana Elina Meyer , Katharina Luise Schilke

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising performance in summary evaluation tasks, yet they face challenges such as high computational costs and the Lost-in-the-Middle problem where important information in the middle of long…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Yunshu Wu , Hayate Iso , Pouya Pezeshkpour , Nikita Bhutani , Estevam Hruschka

Abstractive summarization has made tremendous progress in recent years. In this work, we perform fine-grained human annotations to evaluate long document abstractive summarization systems (i.e., models and metrics) with the aim of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Huan Yee Koh , Jiaxin Ju , He Zhang , Ming Liu , Shirui Pan

Manual Summarization of large bodies of text involves a lot of human effort and time, especially in the legal domain. Lawyers spend a lot of time preparing legal briefs of their clients' case files. Automatic Text summarization is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Varun Pandya

In this era of information technology, abundant information is available on the internet in the form of web pages and documents on any given topic. Finding the most relevant and informative content out of these huge number of documents,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Uswa Ihsan , Humaira Ashraf , NZ Jhanjhi

Interpretability or explainability is an emerging research field in NLP. From a user-centric point of view, the goal is to build models that provide proper justification for their decisions, similar to those of humans, by requiring the…

While large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to summarize long documents, this trend poses significant challenges in the legal domain, where the factual accuracy of deposition summaries is crucial. Nugget-based methods have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Naghmeh Farzi , Laura Dietz , Dave D. Lewis

While the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in analytical tasks such as mathematics and code generation, their utility for abstractive summarization remains widely assumed but largely unverified. To bridge this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Haohan Yuan , Haopeng Zhang

Large Language Models work quite well with general-purpose data and many tasks in Natural Language Processing. However, they show several limitations when used for a task such as domain-specific abstractive text summarization. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Anum Afzal , Juraj Vladika , Daniel Braun , Florian Matthes

The increasing volume of textual data poses challenges in reading and comprehending large documents, particularly for scholars who need to extract useful information from research articles. Automatic text summarization has emerged as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Samira Zangooei , Amirhossein Darmani , Hossein Farahmand Nezhad , Laya Mahmoudi

Sequence to sequence (Seq2Seq) learning has recently been used for abstractive and extractive summarization. In current study, Seq2Seq models have been used for eBay product description summarization. We propose a novel Document-Context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Chandra Khatri , Gyanit Singh , Nish Parikh

Document summarization provides an instrument for faster understanding the collection of text documents and has several real-life applications. With the growth of online text data, numerous summarization models have been proposed recently.…

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

We develop an abstractive summarization framework independent of labeled data for multiple heterogeneous documents. Unlike existing multi-document summarization methods, our framework processes documents telling different stories instead of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Ning Wang , Han Liu , Diego Klabjan

Though many algorithms can be used to automatically summarize legal case decisions, most fail to incorporate domain knowledge about how important sentences in a legal decision relate to a representation of its document structure. For…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Yang Zhong , Diane Litman

Abstractive summarization of scientific papers has always been a research focus, yet existing methods face two main challenges. First, most summarization models rely on Encoder-Decoder architectures that treat papers as sequences of words,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Tong Bao , Heng Zhang , Chengzhi Zhang

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

We introduce a new approach for abstractive text summarization, Topic-Guided Abstractive Summarization, which calibrates long-range dependencies from topic-level features with globally salient content. The idea is to incorporate neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Chujie Zheng , Kunpeng Zhang , Harry Jiannan Wang , Ling Fan , Zhe Wang