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Current summarization systems yield generic summaries that are disconnected from users' preferences and expectations. To address this limitation, we present CTRLsum, a novel framework for controllable summarization. Our approach enables…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Junxian He , Wojciech Kryściński , Bryan McCann , Nazneen Rajani , Caiming Xiong

Controlling the length of generated text can be crucial in various text-generation tasks, including summarization. Existing methods often require complex model alterations, limiting compatibility with pre-trained models. We address these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Zeno Belligoli , Emmanouil Stergiadis , Eran Fainman , Ilya Gusev

Sentence summarization aims at compressing a long sentence into a short one that keeps the main gist, and has extensive real-world applications such as headline generation. In previous work, researchers have developed various approaches to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Puyuan Liu , Xiang Zhang , Lili Mou

We study controllable text summarization which allows users to gain control on a particular attribute (e.g., length limit) of the generated summaries. In this work, we propose a novel training framework based on Constrained Markov Decision…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Hou Pong Chan , Lu Wang , Irwin King

Neural encoder-decoder models have shown great success in many sequence generation tasks. However, previous work has not investigated situations in which we would like to control the length of encoder-decoder outputs. This capability is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Yuta Kikuchi , Graham Neubig , Ryohei Sasano , Hiroya Takamura , Manabu Okumura

Fixed length summarization aims at generating summaries with a preset number of words or characters. Most recent researches incorporate length information with word embeddings as the input to the recurrent decoding unit, causing a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Zhongyi Yu , Zhenghao Wu , Hao Zheng , Zhe XuanYuan , Jefferson Fong , Weifeng Su

Precisely controlling the length of generated text is a common requirement in real-world applications. However, despite significant advancements in following human instructions, Large Language Models (LLMs) still struggle with this task. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Meiman Xiao , Ante Wang , Qingguo Hu , Zhongjian Miao , Huangjun Shen , Longyue Wang , Weihua Luo , Jinsong Su

Large language models (LLMs) struggle with precise length control, particularly in zero-shot settings. We conduct a comprehensive study evaluating LLMs' length control capabilities across multiple measures and propose practical methods to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Fabian Retkowski , Alexander Waibel

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

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive instruction following capabilities, while still struggling to accurately manage the length of the generated text, which is a fundamental requirement in many real-world applications.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Yuxuan Gu , Wenjie Wang , Xiaocheng Feng , Weihong Zhong , Kun Zhu , Lei Huang , Tat-Seng Chua , Bing Qin

Readability refers to how easily a reader can understand a written text. Several factors affect the readability level, such as the complexity of the text, its subject matter, and the reader's background knowledge. Generating summaries based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro , Mohit Bansal , Markus Dreyer

Topic-controllable summarization is an emerging research area with a wide range of potential applications. However, existing approaches suffer from significant limitations. For example, the majority of existing methods built upon recurrent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Tatiana Passali , Grigorios Tsoumakas

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

Current models for document summarization disregard user preferences such as the desired length, style, the entities that the user might be interested in, or how much of the document the user has already read. We present a neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Angela Fan , David Grangier , Michael Auli

Long document summarization poses a significant challenge in natural language processing due to input lengths that exceed the capacity of most state-of-the-art pre-trained language models. This study proposes a hierarchical framework that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yuan-Jhe Yin , Bo-Yu Chen , Berlin Chen

Existing approaches to automatic summarization assume that a length limit for the summary is given, and view content selection as an optimization problem to maximize informativeness and minimize redundancy within this budget. This framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Jingyun Liu , Jackie C. K. Cheung , Annie Louis

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

Producing a reduced version of a source text, as in generic or focused summarization, inherently involves two distinct subtasks: deciding on targeted content and generating a coherent text conveying it. While some popular approaches address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Aviv Slobodkin , Paul Roit , Eran Hirsch , Ori Ernst , Ido Dagan

A key challenge in citation text generation is that the length of generated text often differs from the length of the target, lowering the quality of the generation. While prior works have investigated length-controlled generation, their…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Biswadip Mandal , Xiangci Li , Jessica Ouyang

Recently, research efforts have gained pace to cater to varied user preferences while generating text summaries. While there have been attempts to incorporate a few handpicked characteristics such as length or entities, a holistic view…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Kushal Chawla , Hrituraj Singh , Arijit Pramanik , Mithlesh Kumar , Balaji Vasan Srinivasan
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