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Citizen reporting platforms help the public and authorities stay informed about sexual harassment incidents. However, the high volume of data shared on these platforms makes reviewing each individual case challenging. Therefore, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Garima Chhikara , Anurag Sharma , V. Gurucharan , Kripabandhu Ghosh , Abhijnan Chakraborty

Recent advances in summarization research focus on improving summary quality across multiple criteria, such as completeness, conciseness, and faithfulness, by jointly optimizing these dimensions. However, these efforts largely overlook the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hongye Liu , Liang Ding , Ricardo Henao

Video summarization aims at generating a compact yet representative visual summary that conveys the essence of the original video. The advantage of unsupervised approaches is that they do not require human annotations to learn the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Hussain Kanafani , Junaid Ahmed Ghauri , Sherzod Hakimov , Ralph Ewerth

We present HowSumm, a novel large-scale dataset for the task of query-focused multi-document summarization (qMDS), which targets the use-case of generating actionable instructions from a set of sources. This use-case is different from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Odellia Boni , Guy Feigenblat , Guy Lev , Michal Shmueli-Scheuer , Benjamin Sznajder , David Konopnicki

Multi-document summarization is the process of automatically generating a concise summary of multiple documents related to the same topic. This summary can help users quickly understand the key information from a large collection of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Charles Rajan , Nishit Asnani , Shreya Singh

Few-shot abstractive summarization has become a challenging task in natural language generation. To support it, we designed a novel soft prompts architecture coupled with a prompt pre-training plus fine-tuning paradigm that is effective and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Xiaochen Liu , Yang Gao , Yu Bai , Jiawei Li , Yinan Hu , Heyan Huang , Boxing Chen

Scientific extreme summarization (TLDR) aims to form ultra-short summaries of scientific papers. Previous efforts on curating scientific TLDR datasets failed to scale up due to the heavy human annotation and domain expertise required. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Yuning Mao , Ming Zhong , Jiawei Han

Video summarization aims to distill the most important information from a source video to produce either an abridged clip or a textual narrative. Traditionally, different methods have been proposed depending on whether the output is a video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Jingyang Lin , Hang Hua , Ming Chen , Yikang Li , Jenhao Hsiao , Chiuman Ho , Jiebo Luo

Recently, opinion summarization, which is the generation of a summary from multiple reviews, has been conducted in a self-supervised manner by considering a sampled review as a pseudo summary. However, non-text data such as image and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Jinbae Im , Moonki Kim , Hoyeop Lee , Hyunsouk Cho , Sehee Chung

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

The rapid growth of text data has motivated the development of machine-learning based automatic text summarization strategies that concisely capture the essential ideas in a larger text. This study aimed to devise an extractive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Vivian T. Chou , LeAnna Kent , Joel A. Góngora , Sam Ballerini , Carl D. Hoover

Current approaches for text summarization are predominantly automatic, with rather limited space for human intervention and control over the process. In this paper, we introduce SummHelper, a 2-phase summarization assistant designed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Aviv Slobodkin , Niv Nachum , Shmuel Amar , Ori Shapira , Ido Dagan

Due to the exponential growth of information and the need for efficient information consumption the task of summarization has gained paramount importance. Evaluating summarization accurately and objectively presents significant challenges,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Dong Yuan , Eti Rastogi , Fen Zhao , Sagar Goyal , Gautam Naik , Sree Prasanna Rajagopal

Summarization quality evaluation is a non-trivial task in text summarization. Contemporary methods can be mainly categorized into two scenarios: (1) reference-based: evaluating with human-labeled reference summary; (2) reference-free:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Shen Gao , Zhitao Yao , Chongyang Tao , Xiuying Chen , Pengjie Ren , Zhaochun Ren , Zhumin Chen

Automatic medical text simplification plays a key role in improving health literacy by making complex biomedical research accessible to diverse readers. However, most existing resources assume a single generic audience, overlooking the wide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Rohan Charudatt Salvi , Chirag Chawla , Dhruv Jain , Swapnil Panigrahi , Md Shad Akhtar , Shweta Yadav

Withthegrowthofknowledgegraphs, entity descriptions are becoming extremely lengthy. Entity summarization task, aiming to generate diverse, comprehensive, and representative summaries for entities, has received increasing interest recently.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Dongjun Wei , Yaxin Liu , Fuqing Zhu , Liangjun Zang , Wei Zhou , Yijun Lu , Songlin Hu

In an ever-expanding world of domain-specific knowledge, the increasing complexity of consuming, and storing information necessitates the generation of summaries from large information repositories. However, every persona of a domain has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Ankan Mullick , Sombit Bose , Rounak Saha , Ayan Kumar Bhowmick , Pawan Goyal , Niloy Ganguly , Prasenjit Dey , Ravi Kokku

There are not enough established benchmarks for the task fo speech summarization. Creating new benchmarks demands human annotation, as LLMs could embed systemic errors and bias into datasets. We test ten annotation workflows varying input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Kaavya Chaparala , Thomas Thebaud , Jesús Villalba López , Laureano Moro-Velazquez , Peter Viechnicki , Najim Dehak

We propose a new length-controllable abstractive summarization model. Recent state-of-the-art abstractive summarization models based on encoder-decoder models generate only one summary per source text. However, controllable summarization,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Itsumi Saito , Kyosuke Nishida , Kosuke Nishida , Atsushi Otsuka , Hisako Asano , Junji Tomita , Hiroyuki Shindo , Yuji Matsumoto

Reliable evaluation of large language model (LLM)-generated summaries remains an open challenge, particularly across heterogeneous domains and document lengths. We conduct a comprehensive meta-evaluation of 14 automatic summarization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Huyen Nguyen , Haoxuan Zhang , Yang Zhang , Junhua Ding , Haihua Chen