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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

Sentence summarization shortens given texts while maintaining core contents of the texts. Unsupervised approaches have been studied to summarize texts without human-written summaries. However, recent unsupervised models are extractive,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Dongmin Hyun , Xiting Wang , Chanyoung Park , Xing Xie , Hwanjo Yu

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

We propose a selective encoding model to extend the sequence-to-sequence framework for abstractive sentence summarization. It consists of a sentence encoder, a selective gate network, and an attention equipped decoder. The sentence encoder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Qingyu Zhou , Nan Yang , Furu Wei , Ming Zhou

Automatic chat summarization can help people quickly grasp important information from numerous chat messages. Unlike conventional documents, chat logs usually have fragmented and evolving topics. In addition, these logs contain a quantity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Yicheng Zou , Jun Lin , Lujun Zhao , Yangyang Kang , Zhuoren Jiang , Changlong Sun , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang , Xiaozhong Liu

Customer reviews are vital for making purchasing decisions in the Information Age. Such reviews can be automatically summarized to provide the user with an overview of opinions. In this tutorial, we present various aspects of opinion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Reinald Kim Amplayo , Arthur Bražinskas , Yoshi Suhara , Xiaolan Wang , Bing Liu

Abstractive summarization at controllable lengths is a challenging task in natural language processing. It is even more challenging for domains where limited training data is available or scenarios in which the length of the summary is not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Ritesh Sarkhel , Moniba Keymanesh , Arnab Nandi , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Recent state-of-the-art authorship attribution methods learn authorship representations of texts in a latent, non-interpretable space, hindering their usability in real-world applications. Our work proposes a novel approach to interpreting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Milad Alshomary , Narutatsu Ri , Marianna Apidianaki , Ajay Patel , Smaranda Muresan , Kathleen McKeown

Abstractive summarization models are typically pre-trained on large amounts of generic texts, then fine-tuned on tens or hundreds of thousands of annotated samples. However, in opinion summarization, large annotated datasets of reviews…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Arthur Bražinskas , Ramesh Nallapati , Mohit Bansal , Markus Dreyer

With the rapid growth of unstructured data from social media, reviews, and forums, text mining has become essential in Information Systems (IS) for extracting actionable insights. Summarization can condense fragmented, emotion-rich posts,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Junyi Liu , Stanley Kok

Opinion summarization is the task of creating summaries capturing popular opinions from user reviews. In this paper, we introduce Geodesic Summarizer (GeoSumm), a novel system to perform unsupervised extractive opinion summarization.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury , Nicholas Monath , Avinava Dubey , Amr Ahmed , Snigdha Chaturvedi

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

Abstractive summarization typically relies on large collections of paired articles and summaries. However, in many cases, parallel data is scarce and costly to obtain. We develop an abstractive summarization system that relies only on large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Nikola I. Nikolov , Richard H. R. Hahnloser

In a world of proliferating data, the ability to rapidly summarize text is growing in importance. Automatic summarization of text can be thought of as a sequence to sequence problem. Another area of natural language processing that solves a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Jacob Krantz , Jugal Kalita

In this paper, we aim to improve abstractive dialogue summarization quality and, at the same time, enable granularity control. Our model has two primary components and stages: 1) a two-stage generation strategy that generates a preliminary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Chien-Sheng Wu , Linqing Liu , Wenhao Liu , Pontus Stenetorp , Caiming Xiong

In recent years, text summarization methods have attracted much attention again thanks to the researches on neural network models. Most of the current text summarization methods based on neural network models are supervised methods which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Dehao Tao , Yingzhu Xiong , Zhongliang Yang , Yongfeng Huang

In this paper, we study abstractive review summarization.Observing that review summaries often consist of aspect words, opinion words and context words, we propose a two-stage reinforcement learning approach, which first predicts the output…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Yufei Tian , Jianfei Yu , Jing Jiang

Summarization is a way to represent same information in concise way with equal sense. This can be categorized in two type Abstractive and Extractive type. Our work is focused around Extractive summarization. A generic approach to extractive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Chandra Shekhar Yadav , Aditi Sharan

This paper addresses the problem of summarizing decisions in spoken meetings: our goal is to produce a concise {\it decision abstract} for each meeting decision. We explore and compare token-level and dialogue act-level automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Lu Wang , Claire Cardie

Analysts require attribution, as nothing can be reported without knowing the source of the information. In this paper, we will focus on automatic methods for attribution, linking each sentence in the summary to a portion of the source text,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Violet B , John M. Conroy , Sean Lynch , Danielle M , Neil P. Molino , Aaron Wiechmann , Julia S. Yang