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Summarization of multimedia data becomes increasingly significant as it is the basis for many real-world applications, such as question answering, Web search, and so forth. Most existing multi-modal summarization works however have used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Xiyan Fu , Jun Wang , Zhenglu Yang

This paper considers extractive summarisation in a comparative setting: given two or more document groups (e.g., separated by publication time), the goal is to select a small number of documents that are representative of each group, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Umanga Bista , Alexander Mathews , Minjeong Shin , Aditya Krishna Menon , Lexing Xie

Due to the large amount of textual information available on Internet, it is of paramount relevance to use techniques that find relevant and concise content. A typical task devoted to the identification of informative sentences in documents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Jorge V. Tohalino , Diego R. Amancio

As the number of documents on the web is growing exponentially, multi-document summarization is becoming more and more important since it can provide the main ideas in a document set in short time. In this paper, we present an unsupervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Kaustubh Mani , Ishan Verma , Hardik Meisheri , Lipika Dey

Most of existing extractive multi-document summarization (MDS) methods score each sentence individually and extract salient sentences one by one to compose a summary, which have two main drawbacks: (1) neglecting both the intra and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Moye Chen , Wei Li , Jiachen Liu , Xinyan Xiao , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have led to new summarization strategies, offering an extensive toolkit for extracting important information. However, these approaches are frequently limited by their reliance on isolated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Pranav Janjani , Mayank Palan , Sarvesh Shirude , Ninad Shegokar , Sunny Kumar , Faruk Kazi

Previous research in multi-document news summarization has typically concentrated on collating information that all sources agree upon. However, the summarization of diverse information dispersed across multiple articles about an event…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Kung-Hsiang Huang , Philippe Laban , Alexander R. Fabbri , Prafulla Kumar Choubey , Shafiq Joty , Caiming Xiong , Chien-Sheng Wu

We present a novel system providing summaries for Computer Science publications. Through a qualitative user study, we identified the most valuable scenarios for discovery, exploration and understanding of scientific documents. Based on…

Personalized multi-document summarization (MDS) is essential for meeting individual user preferences of writing style and content focus for summaries. In this paper, we propose that for effective personalization, it is important to identify…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Haoyuan Li , Snigdha Chaturvedi

Query-based document summarization aims to extract or generate a summary of a document which directly answers or is relevant to the search query. It is an important technique that can be beneficial to a variety of applications such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Mingjun Zhao , Shengli Yan , Bang Liu , Xinwang Zhong , Qian Hao , Haolan Chen , Di Niu , Bowei Long , Weidong Guo

To assess the effectiveness of any medical intervention, researchers must conduct a time-intensive and highly manual literature review. NLP systems can help to automate or assist in parts of this expensive process. In support of this goal,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Jay DeYoung , Iz Beltagy , Madeleine van Zuylen , Bailey Kuehl , Lucy Lu Wang

Document summarization is a task to generate afluent, condensed summary for a document, andkeep important information. A cluster of documents serves as the input for multi-document summarizing (MDS), while the cluster summary serves as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Huu-Thin Nguyen , Tam Doan Thanh , Cam-Van Thi Nguyen

Existing multi-document summarization systems usually rely on a specific summarization model (i.e., a summarization method with a specific parameter setting) to extract summaries for different document sets with different topics. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-07-09 Xiaojun Wan , Ziqiang Cao , Furu Wei , Sujian Li , Ming Zhou

While neural sequence learning methods have made significant progress in single-document summarization (SDS), they produce unsatisfactory results on multi-document summarization (MDS). We observe two major challenges when adapting SDS…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Yuning Mao , Yanru Qu , Yiqing Xie , Xiang Ren , Jiawei Han

We present a novel divide-and-conquer method for the neural summarization of long documents. Our method exploits the discourse structure of the document and uses sentence similarity to split the problem into an ensemble of smaller…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Alexios Gidiotis , Grigorios Tsoumakas

Summarising data as text helps people make sense of it. It also improves data discovery, as search algorithms can match this text against keyword queries. In this paper, we explore the characteristics of text summaries of data in order to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Laura Koesten , Elena Simperl , Emilia Kacprzak , Tom Blount , Jeni Tennison

Automatically condensing multiple topic-related scientific papers into a succinct and concise summary is referred to as Multi-Document Scientific Summarization (MDSS). Currently, while commonly used abstractive MDSS methods can generate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Pancheng Wang , Shasha Li , Dong Li , Kehan Long , Jintao Tang , Ting Wang

With more and more advanced data analysis techniques emerging, people will expect these techniques to be applied in more complex tasks and solve problems in our daily lives. Text Summarization is one of famous applications in Natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Chen Jia-Chen , Guillem Senabre , Allane Caron

Prior work in document summarization has mainly focused on generating short summaries of a document. While this type of summary helps get a high-level view of a given document, it is desirable in some cases to know more detailed information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Sajad Sotudeh , Arman Cohan , Nazli Goharian

Text summarization is a user-preference based task, i.e., for one document, users often have different priorities for summary. As a key aspect of customization in summarization, granularity is used to measure the semantic coverage between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Ming Zhong , Yang Liu , Suyu Ge , Yuning Mao , Yizhu Jiao , Xingxing Zhang , Yichong Xu , Chenguang Zhu , Michael Zeng , Jiawei Han