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In the field of multi-document summarization (MDS), transformer-based models have demonstrated remarkable success, yet they suffer an input length limitation. Current methods apply truncation after the retrieval process to fit the context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Shiyin Tan , Jaeeon Park , Dongyuan Li , Renhe Jiang , Manabu Okumura

In this era of information technology, abundant information is available on the internet in the form of web pages and documents on any given topic. Finding the most relevant and informative content out of these huge number of documents,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Uswa Ihsan , Humaira Ashraf , NZ Jhanjhi

Writing a survey paper on one research topic usually needs to cover the salient content from numerous related papers, which can be modeled as a multi-document summarization (MDS) task. Existing MDS datasets usually focus on producing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Shuaiqi Liu , Jiannong Cao , Ruosong Yang , Zhiyuan Wen

Multi-document summarization (MDS) refers to the task of summarizing the text in multiple documents into a concise summary. The generated summary can save the time of reading many documents by providing the important content in the form of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Mohamed Trabelsi , Huseyin Uzunalioglu

Multi-document summarization entails producing concise synopses of collections of inputs. For some applications, the synopsis should accurately synthesize inputs with respect to a key aspect, e.g., a synopsis of film reviews written about a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Jay DeYoung , Stephanie C. Martinez , Iain J. Marshall , Byron C. Wallace

Medical multi-document summarization (MDS) is a complex task that requires effectively managing cross-document relationships. This paper investigates whether incorporating hierarchical structures in the inputs of MDS can improve a model's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Yi-Li Hsu , Katelyn X. Mei , Lucy Lu Wang

In the rapidly evolving digital era, there is an increasing demand for concise information as individuals seek to distil key insights from various sources. Recent attention from researchers on Multi-document Summarisation (MDS) has resulted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Kushan Hewapathirana , Nisansa de Silva , C. D. Athuraliya

Multi-document summarization (MDS) has made significant progress in recent years, in part facilitated by the availability of new, dedicated datasets and capacious language models. However, a standing limitation of these models is that they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Jacob Parnell , Inigo Jauregi Unanue , Massimo Piccardi

Multi-document summarization (MDS) aims to compress the content in large document collections into short summaries and has important applications in story clustering for newsfeeds, presentation of search results, and timeline generation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Demian Gholipour Ghalandari , Chris Hokamp , Nghia The Pham , John Glover , Georgiana Ifrim

Automatic generation of summaries from multiple news articles is a valuable tool as the number of online publications grows rapidly. Single document summarization (SDS) systems have benefited from advances in neural encoder-decoder model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Alexander R. Fabbri , Irene Li , Tianwei She , Suyi Li , Dragomir R. Radev

Recent advances in test-time scaling have shown promising results in improving Large Language Model (LLM) performance through strategic computation allocation during inference. While this approach has demonstrated strong improvements in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Juntai Cao , Xiang Zhang , Raymond Li , Chuyuan Li , Chenyu You , Shafiq Joty , Giuseppe Carenini

Graphs that capture relations between textual units have great benefits for detecting salient information from multiple documents and generating overall coherent summaries. In this paper, we develop a neural abstractive multi-document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Wei Li , Xinyan Xiao , Jiachen Liu , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang , Junping Du

The utilization of Transformer-based models prospers the growth of multi-document summarization (MDS). Given the huge impact and widespread adoption of Transformer-based models in various natural language processing tasks, investigating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Congbo Ma , Wei Emma Zhang , Dileepa Pitawela , Haojie Zhuang , Yanfeng Shu

A key challenge in Multi-Document Summarization (MDS) is effectively integrating information from multiple sources while maintaining coherence and topical relevance. While Large Language Models have shown impressive results in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Chuyuan Li , Austin Xu , Shafiq Joty , Giuseppe Carenini

Huge volumes of textual information has been produced every single day. In order to organize and understand such large datasets, in recent years, summarization techniques have become popular. These techniques aims at finding relevant,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Jorge V. Tohalino , Diego R. Amancio

In Multi-Document Summarization (MDS), the input can be modeled as a set of documents, and the output is its summary. In this paper, we focus on pretraining objectives for MDS. Specifically, we introduce a novel pretraining objective, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Ratish Puduppully , Parag Jain , Nancy F. Chen , Mark Steedman

We propose a new MDS paradigm called reader-aware multi-document summarization (RA-MDS). Specifically, a set of reader comments associated with the news reports are also collected. The generated summaries from the reports for the event…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Piji Li , Lidong Bing , Wai Lam , Hang Li , Yi Liao

This paper is aimed at evaluating state-of-the-art models for Multi-document Summarization (MDS) on different types of datasets in various domains and investigating the limitations of existing models to determine future research directions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Kushan Hewapathirana , Nisansa de Silva , C. D. Athuraliya

Timeline summarization (TLS) creates an overview of long-running events via dated daily summaries for the most important dates. TLS differs from standard multi-document summarization (MDS) in the importance of date selection,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Sebastian Martschat , Katja Markert

One key challenge in multi-document summarization is to capture the relations among input documents that distinguish between single document summarization (SDS) and multi-document summarization (MDS). Few existing MDS works address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Congbo Ma , Wei Emma Zhang , Pitawelayalage Dasun Dileepa Pitawela , Yutong Qu , Haojie Zhuang , Hu Wang