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Unsupervised extractive document summarization aims to select important sentences from a document without using labeled summaries during training. Existing methods are mostly graph-based with sentences as nodes and edge weights measured by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Shusheng Xu , Xingxing Zhang , Yi Wu , Furu Wei , Ming Zhou

The supervised training of high-capacity models on large datasets containing hundreds of thousands of document-summary pairs is critical to the recent success of deep learning techniques for abstractive summarization. Unfortunately, in most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Reinald Kim Amplayo , Mirella Lapata

Neural abstractive summarization methods often require large quantities of labeled training data. However, labeling large amounts of summarization data is often prohibitive due to time, financial, and expertise constraints, which has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Junnan Liu , Qianren Mao , Bang Liu , Hao Peng , Hongdong Zhu , Jianxin Li

Current abstractive summarization systems present important weaknesses which prevent their deployment in real-world applications, such as the omission of relevant information and the generation of factual inconsistencies (also known as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Diogo Pernes , Afonso Mendes , André F. T. Martins

Large Language Model (LLM)-based web agents excel at knowledge-intensive tasks but face a fundamental conflict between the need for extensive exploration and the constraints of limited context windows. Current solutions typically rely on…

Abstractive summarization models are commonly trained using maximum likelihood estimation, which assumes a deterministic (one-point) target distribution in which an ideal model will assign all the probability mass to the reference summary.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Yixin Liu , Pengfei Liu , Dragomir Radev , Graham Neubig

Pre-training general-purpose visual features with convolutional neural networks without relying on annotations is a challenging and important task. Most recent efforts in unsupervised feature learning have focused on either small or highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Mathilde Caron , Piotr Bojanowski , Julien Mairal , Armand Joulin

This paper presents a robust and comprehensive graph-based rank aggregation approach, used to combine results of isolated ranker models in retrieval tasks. The method follows an unsupervised scheme, which is independent of how the isolated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Icaro Cavalcante Dourado , Daniel Carlos Guimarães Pedronette , Ricardo da Silva Torres

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

Prior studies have demonstrated that approaches to generate an answer summary for a given technical query in Software Question and Answer (SQA) sites are desired. We find that existing approaches are assessed solely through user studies.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Yang Chengran , Bowen Xu , Ferdian Thung , Yucen Shi , Ting Zhang , Zhou Yang , Xin Zhou , Jieke Shi , Junda He , DongGyun Han , David Lo

A major challenge for scaling machine learning is training models to perform tasks that are very difficult or time-consuming for humans to evaluate. We present progress on this problem on the task of abstractive summarization of entire…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Jeff Wu , Long Ouyang , Daniel M. Ziegler , Nisan Stiennon , Ryan Lowe , Jan Leike , Paul Christiano

Improving the quality of model-generated summaries, especially factuality, the accuracy of a summary with respect to its source content, remains a challenge. While reranking could select the optimal output from multiple generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Riza Setiawan Soetedjo , Yusuke Sakai , Hidetaka Kamigaito , Jingun Kwon , Manabu Okumura , Taro Watanabe

Single document summarization has enjoyed renewed interests in recent years thanks to the popularity of neural network models and the availability of large-scale datasets. In this paper we develop an unsupervised approach arguing that it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Hao Zheng , Mirella Lapata

Generating unbiased summaries in real-world settings such as political perspective summarization remains a crucial application of Large Language Models (LLMs). Yet, existing evaluation frameworks rely on traditional metrics for measuring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Narutatsu Ri , Nicholas Deas , Kathleen McKeown

We propose a rubric-guided, pseudo-labeled, and prompt-driven zero-shot video summarization framework that bridges large language models with structured semantic reasoning. A small subset of human annotations is converted into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yuanli Wu , Long Zhang , Yue Du , Bin Li

The performance of text summarization has been greatly boosted by pre-trained language models. A main concern of existing methods is that most generated summaries are not factually inconsistent with their source documents. To alleviate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Zheheng Luo , Qianqian Xie , Sophia Ananiadou

Recent Transformer-based summarization models have provided a promising approach to abstractive summarization. They go beyond sentence selection and extractive strategies to deal with more complicated tasks such as novel word generation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Sajad Sotudeh , Hanieh Deilamsalehy , Franck Dernoncourt , Nazli Goharian

Automatic sentence summarization produces a shorter version of a sentence, while preserving its most important information. A good summary is characterized by language fluency and high information overlap with the source sentence. We model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Raphael Schumann , Lili Mou , Yao Lu , Olga Vechtomova , Katja Markert

Researchers have successfully applied large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT to reranking in an information retrieval context, but to date, such work has mostly been built on proprietary models hidden behind opaque API endpoints. This…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Ronak Pradeep , Sahel Sharifymoghaddam , Jimmy Lin

Zero-shot text classifiers based on label descriptions embed an input text and a set of labels into the same space: measures such as cosine similarity can then be used to select the most similar label description to the input text as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Angelo Basile , Marc Franco-Salvador , Paolo Rosso