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Due to flourish of the Web 2.0, web opinion sources are rapidly emerging containing precious information useful for both customers and manufactures. Recently, feature based opinion mining techniques are gaining momentum in which customer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-04-27 Ahmad Kamal

We present OpinionDigest, an abstractive opinion summarization framework, which does not rely on gold-standard summaries for training. The framework uses an Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis model to extract opinion phrases from reviews, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Yoshihiko Suhara , Xiaolan Wang , Stefanos Angelidis , Wang-Chiew Tan

We present a novel summarization framework for reviews of products and services by selecting informative and concise text segments from the reviews. Our method consists of two major steps. First, we identify five frequently occurring…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-11-26 Trung V. Nguyen , Alice H. Oh

Opinion summarisation aims to summarise the salient information and opinions presented in documents such as product reviews, discussion forums, and social media texts into short summaries that enable users to effectively understand the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Nannan Huang , Haytham Fayek , Xiuzhen Zhang

Personalized opinion summarization is crucial as it considers individual user interests while generating product summaries. Recent studies show that although large language models demonstrate powerful text summarization and evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yanyue Zhang , Yulan He , Deyu Zhou

Unsupervised paraphrase generation is a promising and important research topic in natural language processing. We propose UPSA, a novel approach that accomplishes Unsupervised Paraphrasing by Simulated Annealing. We model paraphrase…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Xianggen Liu , Lili Mou , Fandong Meng , Hao Zhou , Jie Zhou , Sen Song

Reviews are valuable resources for customers making purchase decisions in online shopping. However, it is impractical for customers to go over the vast number of reviews and manually conclude the prominent opinions, which prompts the need…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Wendi Zhou , Ameer Saadat-Yazdi , Nadin Kokciyan

Manually extracting relevant aspects and opinions from large volumes of user-generated text is a time-consuming process. Summaries, on the other hand, help readers with limited time budgets to quickly consume the key ideas from the data.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Rajdeep Mukherjee , Hari Chandana Peruri , Uppada Vishnu , Pawan Goyal , Sourangshu Bhattacharya , Niloy Ganguly

The rapid growth of information on the Internet has led to an overwhelming amount of opinions and comments on various activities, products, and services. This makes it difficult and time-consuming for users to process all the available…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Guan Wang , Weihua Li , Edmund M-K. Lai , Quan Bai

Abstractive summarization has been studied using neural sequence transduction methods with datasets of large, paired document-summary examples. However, such datasets are rare and the models trained from them do not generalize to other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Eric Chu , Peter J. Liu

We present our approach to the PerAnsSumm Shared Task, which involves perspective span identification and perspective-aware summarization in community question-answering (CQA) threads. For span identification, we adopt ensemble learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Kristin Qi , Youxiang Zhu , Xiaohui Liang

Key Point Analysis (KPA) aims for quantitative summarization that provides key points (KPs) as succinct textual summaries and quantities measuring their prevalence. KPA studies for arguments and reviews have been reported in the literature.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-22 An Quang Tang , Xiuzhen Zhang , Minh Ngoc Dinh , Erik Cambria

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

Scientific peer review is essential for the quality of academic publications. However, the increasing number of paper submissions to conferences has strained the reviewing process. This surge poses a burden on area chairs who have to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Maxime Darrin , Ines Arous , Pablo Piantanida , Jackie CK Cheung

Product reviews significantly influence purchasing decisions on e-commerce platforms. However, the sheer volume of reviews can overwhelm users, obscuring the information most relevant to their specific needs. Current e-commerce…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Millend Roy , Agostino Capponi , Vineet Goyal

We explore the need for more comprehensive and precise evaluation techniques for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in text summarization tasks, specifically in the area of opinion summarization. Traditional methods, which leverage…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Leandro Anghinoni , Jorge Sanchez

Opinion summarization is the task of automatically generating summaries that encapsulate information from multiple user reviews. We present Semantic Autoencoder (SemAE) to perform extractive opinion summarization in an unsupervised manner.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury , Chao Zhao , Snigdha Chaturvedi

In e-commerce, opinion summarization is the process of summarizing the consensus opinions found in product reviews. However, the potential of additional sources such as product description and question-answers (QA) has been considered less…

Online consumer reviews play a crucial role in guiding purchase decisions by offering insights into product quality, usability, and performance. However, the increasing volume of user-generated reviews has led to information overload,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Muhammad Mufti , Omar Hammad , Mahfuzur Rahman

Product review nowadays has become an important source of information, not only for customers to find opinions about products easily and share their reviews with peers, but also for product manufacturers to get feedback on their products.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2011-10-10 Duy Khang Ly , Kazunari Sugiyama , Ziheng Lin , Min-Yen Kan