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This study addresses the reliability of automatic summarization in high-risk scenarios and proposes a large language model framework that integrates uncertainty quantification and risk-aware mechanisms. Starting from the demands of…

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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

Persuasion dialogue systems reflect the machine's ability to make strategic moves beyond verbal communication, and therefore differentiate themselves from task-oriented or open-domain dialogue systems and have their own unique values.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Weiyan Shi , Yu Li , Saurav Sahay , Zhou Yu

Every day we are surrounded by spoken dialog. This medium delivers rich diverse streams of information auditorily; however, systematically understanding dialog can often be non-trivial. Despite the pervasiveness of spoken dialog, automated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Daniel Li , Thomas Chen , Albert Tung , Lydia Chilton

Abstractive summarization using large language models (LLMs) has become an essential tool for condensing information. However, despite their ability to generate fluent summaries, these models sometimes produce unfaithful summaries,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sicong Huang , Qianqi Yan , Shengze Wang , Ian Lane

Though generative dialogue modeling is widely seen as a language modeling task, the task demands an agent to have a complex natural language understanding of its input text to carry a meaningful interaction with an user. The automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Prasanna Parthasarathi , Joelle Pineau , Sarath Chandar

State-of-the-art summarization systems are trained and evaluated on massive datasets scraped from the web. Despite their prevalence, we know very little about the underlying characteristics (data noise, summarization complexity, etc.) of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Priyam Tejaswin , Dhruv Naik , Pengfei Liu

Despite being able to generate fluent and grammatical text, current Seq2Seq summarization models still suffering from the unfaithful generation problem. In this paper, we study the faithfulness of existing systems from a new perspective of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Wenhao Wu , Wei Li , Jiachen Liu , Xinyan Xiao , Ziqiang Cao , Sujian Li , Hua Wu

Summarization of multi-party dialogues is a critical capability in industry, enhancing knowledge transfer and operational effectiveness across many domains. However, automatically generating high-quality summaries is challenging, as the…

Grounded text generation systems often generate text that contains factual inconsistencies, hindering their real-world applicability. Automatic factual consistency evaluation may help alleviate this limitation by accelerating evaluation…

We investigate evaluation metrics for dialogue response generation systems where supervised labels, such as task completion, are not available. Recent works in response generation have adopted metrics from machine translation to compare a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Chia-Wei Liu , Ryan Lowe , Iulian V. Serban , Michael Noseworthy , Laurent Charlin , Joelle Pineau

There is a growing interest in developing goal-oriented dialog systems which serve users in accomplishing complex tasks through multi-turn conversations. Although many methods are devised to evaluate and improve the performance of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Ryuichi Takanobu , Qi Zhu , Jinchao Li , Baolin Peng , Jianfeng Gao , Minlie Huang

Despite recent improvements in abstractive summarization, most current approaches generate summaries that are not factually consistent with the source document, severely restricting their trust and usage in real-world applications. Recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro , Mengwen Liu , Iryna Gurevych , Markus Dreyer , Mohit Bansal

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

Text summarization aims at compressing long documents into a shorter form that conveys the most important parts of the original document. Despite increased interest in the community and notable research effort, progress on benchmark…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Wojciech Kryściński , Nitish Shirish Keskar , Bryan McCann , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

Current pre-trained models applied to summarization are prone to factual inconsistencies which either misrepresent the source text or introduce extraneous information. Thus, comparing the factual consistency of summaries is necessary as we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Xiangru Tang , Alexander Fabbri , Haoran Li , Ziming Mao , Griffin Thomas Adams , Borui Wang , Asli Celikyilmaz , Yashar Mehdad , Dragomir Radev

Text summarization has a wide range of applications in many scenarios. The evaluation of the quality of the generated text is a complex problem. A big challenge to language evaluation is that there is a clear divergence between existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Ning Wu , Ming Gong , Linjun Shou , Shining Liang , Daxin Jiang

While dialogue remains an important end-goal of natural language research, the difficulty of evaluation is an oft-quoted reason why it remains troublesome to make real progress towards its solution. Evaluation difficulties are actually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Margaret Li , Jason Weston , Stephen Roller

How well can large language models (LLMs) generate summaries? We develop new datasets and conduct human evaluation experiments to evaluate the zero-shot generation capability of LLMs across five distinct summarization tasks. Our findings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xiao Pu , Mingqi Gao , Xiaojun Wan

Automatic text summarization has experienced substantial progress in recent years. With this progress, the question has arisen whether the types of summaries that are typically generated by automatic summarization models align with users'…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Maartje ter Hoeve , Julia Kiseleva , Maarten de Rijke