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Legal documents are often long, dense, and difficult to comprehend, not only for laypeople but also for legal experts. While automated document summarization has great potential to improve access to legal knowledge, prevailing task-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Tsz Fung Pang , Maryam Berijanian , Thomas Orth , Breanna Shi , Charlotte S. Alexander

Automatic evaluation metrics have been facilitating the rapid development of automatic summarization methods by providing instant and fair assessments of the quality of summaries. Most metrics have been developed for the general domain,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Hongyi Yuan , Yaoyun Zhang , Fei Huang , Songfang Huang

As language models become more powerful, training and evaluation are increasingly bottlenecked by the data and metrics used for a particular task. For example, summarization models are often trained to predict human reference summaries and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Nisan Stiennon , Long Ouyang , Jeff Wu , Daniel M. Ziegler , Ryan Lowe , Chelsea Voss , Alec Radford , Dario Amodei , Paul Christiano

Reliable evaluation of large language model (LLM)-generated summaries remains an open challenge, particularly across heterogeneous domains and document lengths. We conduct a comprehensive meta-evaluation of 14 automatic summarization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Huyen Nguyen , Haoxuan Zhang , Yang Zhang , Junhua Ding , Haihua Chen

Studies on evaluation metrics and LLM-as-a-Judge models for automatic text summarization have largely been focused on English, limiting our understanding of their effectiveness in other languages. Through our new dataset BASSE (BAsque and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jeremy Barnes , Naiara Perez , Alba Bonet-Jover , Begoña Altuna

Multi-hop Machine reading comprehension is a challenging task with aim of answering a question based on disjoint pieces of information across the different passages. The evaluation metrics and datasets are a vital part of multi-hop MRC…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Azade Mohammadi , Reza Ramezani , Ahmad Baraani

Text summarization plays a crucial role in natural language processing by condensing large volumes of text into concise and coherent summaries. As digital content continues to grow rapidly and the demand for effective information retrieval…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Tohida Rehman , Soumabha Ghosh , Kuntal Das , Souvik Bhattacharjee , Debarshi Kumar Sanyal , Samiran Chattopadhyay

Existing benchmarks for summarization quality evaluation often lack diverse input scenarios, focus on narrowly defined dimensions (e.g., faithfulness), and struggle with subjective and coarse-grained annotation schemes. To address these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Yuho Lee , Taewon Yun , Jason Cai , Hang Su , Hwanjun Song

In recent times, extracting valuable information from large text is making significant progress. Especially in the current era of social media, people expect quick bites of information. Automatic text summarization seeks to tackle this by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Sindhu Nair , Y. S. Rao , Radha Shankarmani

Abstractive dialogue summarization has received increasing attention recently. Despite the fact that most of the current dialogue summarization systems are trained to maximize the likelihood of human-written summaries and have achieved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Jiaao Chen , Mohan Dodda , Diyi Yang

Long documents such as academic articles and business reports have been the standard format to detail out important issues and complicated subjects that require extra attention. An automatic summarization system that can effectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Huan Yee Koh , Jiaxin Ju , Ming Liu , Shirui Pan

Evaluation of summarization tasks is extremely crucial to determining the quality of machine generated summaries. Over the last decade, ROUGE has become the standard automatic evaluation measure for evaluating summarization tasks. While…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Kavita Ganesan

Abstractive dialogue summarization is the task of distilling conversations into informative and concise summaries. Although reviews have been conducted on this topic, there is a lack of comprehensive work detailing the challenges of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Frederic Kirstein , Jan Philip Wahle , Bela Gipp , Terry Ruas

Automated evaluation metrics as a stand-in for manual evaluation are an essential part of the development of text-generation tasks such as text summarization. However, while the field has progressed, our standard metrics have not -- for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Manik Bhandari , Pranav Gour , Atabak Ashfaq , Pengfei Liu , Graham Neubig

Summarization quality evaluation is a non-trivial task in text summarization. Contemporary methods can be mainly categorized into two scenarios: (1) reference-based: evaluating with human-labeled reference summary; (2) reference-free:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Shen Gao , Zhitao Yao , Chongyang Tao , Xiuying Chen , Pengjie Ren , Zhaochun Ren , Zhumin Chen

Opinion summarization is expected to digest larger review sets and provide summaries from different perspectives. However, most existing solutions are deficient in epitomizing extensive reviews and offering opinion summaries from various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Han Jiang , Rui Wang , Zhihua Wei , Yu Li , Xinpeng Wang

No existing dataset adequately tests how well language models can incrementally update entity summaries - a crucial ability as these models rapidly advance. The Incremental Entity Summarization (IES) task is vital for maintaining accurate,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Eunjeong Hwang , Yichao Zhou , Beliz Gunel , James Bradley Wendt , Sandeep Tata

As large language models continue to advance, their application in educational contexts remains underexplored and under-optimized. In this paper, we address this gap by introducing the first diverse benchmark tailored for educational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Bin Xu , Yu Bai , Huashan Sun , Yiguan Lin , Siming Liu , Xinyue Liang , Yaolin Li , Zhuangzhi Dong , Jingren Zhang , Yufan Deng , Xinyu Zou , Yang Gao , Heyan Huang

Many-to-many summarization (M2MS) aims to process documents in any language and generate the corresponding summaries also in any language. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have shown strong multi-lingual abilities, giving them the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jiaan Wang , Fandong Meng , Zengkui Sun , Yunlong Liang , Yuxuan Cao , Jiarong Xu , Haoxiang Shi , Jie Zhou

Automated evaluation is crucial for streamlining text summarization benchmarking and model development, given the costly and time-consuming nature of human evaluation. Traditional methods like ROUGE do not correlate well with human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Hwanjun Song , Hang Su , Igor Shalyminov , Jason Cai , Saab Mansour