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Like humans, document summarization models can interpret a document's contents in a number of ways. Unfortunately, the neural models of today are largely black boxes that provide little explanation of how or why they generated a summary in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Wang Haonan , Gao Yang , Bai Yu , Mirella Lapata , Huang Heyan

Despite substantial progress in abstractive text summarization to generate fluent and informative texts, the factual inconsistency in the generated summaries remains an important yet challenging problem to be solved. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Chenhe Dong , Yuexiang Xie , Yaliang Li , Ying Shen

As large language models (LLMs) have become the norm in NLP, demonstrating good performance in generation and reasoning tasks, one of its most fatal disadvantages is the lack of factual correctness. Generating unfactual texts not only leads…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Ruochen Zhao , Xingxuan Li , Shafiq Joty , Chengwei Qin , Lidong Bing

Ensuring factual consistency is crucial for natural language generation tasks, particularly in abstractive summarization, where preserving the integrity of information is paramount. Prior works on evaluating factual consistency of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Haoyi Qiu , Kung-Hsiang Huang , Jingnong Qu , Nanyun Peng

We present an extension-based approach for computing and verifying preferences in an abstract argumentation system. Although numerous argumentation semantics have been developed previously for identifying acceptable sets of arguments from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Quratul-ain Mahesar , Nir Oren , Wamberto W. Vasconcelos

Modern summarization models generate highly fluent but often factually unreliable outputs. This motivated a surge of metrics attempting to measure the factuality of automatically generated summaries. Due to the lack of common benchmarks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Artidoro Pagnoni , Vidhisha Balachandran , Yulia Tsvetkov

This study addresses the critical issue of factual inaccuracies in machine-generated text summaries, an increasingly prevalent issue in information dissemination. Recognizing the potential of such errors to compromise information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Aniket Deroy , Subhankar Maity , Saptarshi Ghosh

Generating factual-consistent summaries is a challenging task for abstractive summarization. Previous works mainly encode factual information or perform post-correct/rank after decoding. In this paper, we provide a factual-consistent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Wei Liu , Huanqin Wu , Wenjing Mu , Zhen Li , Tao Chen , Dan Nie

Capturing uncertainty in models of complex dynamical systems is crucial to designing safe controllers. Stochastic noise causes aleatoric uncertainty, whereas imprecise knowledge of model parameters leads to epistemic uncertainty. Several…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-08 Thom Badings , Licio Romao , Alessandro Abate , Nils Jansen

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

This study presents a controllable abstract summary generation method for large language models based on prompt engineering. To address the issues of summary quality and controllability in traditional methods, we design a multi-stage prompt…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Xiangchen Song , Yuchen Liu , Yaxuan Luan , Jinxu Guo , Xiaofan Guo

Unlike extractive summarization, abstractive summarization has to fuse different parts of the source text, which inclines to create fake facts. Our preliminary study reveals nearly 30% of the outputs from a state-of-the-art neural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Ziqiang Cao , Furu Wei , Wenjie Li , Sujian Li

Fighting misinformation is a challenging, yet crucial, task. Despite the growing number of experts being involved in manual fact-checking, this activity is time-consuming and cannot keep up with the ever-increasing amount of Fake News…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Daniel Russo , Serra Sinem Tekiroglu , Marco Guerini

The issue of factual consistency in abstractive summarization has received extensive attention in recent years, and the evaluation of factual consistency between summary and document has become an important and urgent task. Most of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Yiyang Li , Lei Li , Marina Litvak , Natalia Vanetik , Dingxin Hu , Yuze Li , Yanquan Zhou

Self-consistency has emerged as a powerful method for improving the accuracy of short answers generated by large language models. As previously defined, it only concerns the accuracy of a final answer parsed from generated text. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Christopher Malon , Xiaodan Zhu

Factual consistency is one of important summary evaluation dimensions, especially as summary generation becomes more fluent and coherent. The ESTIME measure, recently proposed specifically for factual consistency, achieves high correlations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Oleg Vasilyev , John Bohannon

Opinion summarization is the task of automatically creating summaries that reflect subjective information expressed in multiple documents, such as product reviews. While the majority of previous work has focused on the extractive setting,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Arthur Bražinskas , Mirella Lapata , Ivan Titov

Generative models are increasingly powerful, yet users struggle to guide them through prompts. The generative process is difficult to control and unpredictable, and user instructions may be ambiguous or under-specified. Prior prompt…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Zhipeng Li , Yi-Chi Liao , Christian Holz

Various structured argumentation frameworks utilize preferences as part of their standard inference procedure to enable reasoning with preferences. In this paper, we consider an inverse of the standard reasoning problem, seeking to identify…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Quratul-ain Mahesar , Nir Oren , Wamberto W. Vasconcelos

E-commerce stores collect customer feedback to let sellers learn about customer concerns and enhance customer order experience. Because customer feedback often contains redundant information, a concise summary of the feedback can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Yang Liu , Yifei Sun , Vincent Gao