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In this paper, we present a model for generating summaries of text documents with respect to a query. This is known as query-based summarization. We adapt an existing dataset of news article summaries for the task and train a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Johan Hasselqvist , Niklas Helmertz , Mikael Kågebäck

Conversational assistants often require a question rewriting algorithm that leverages a subset of past interactions to provide a more meaningful (accurate) answer to the user's question or request. However, the exact rewriting approach may…

Large-scale datasets are widely used to perform summarization tasks, but they may not include queries alongside documents and summaries. In the search for suitable datasets for Query-Focused Summarization (QFS), we identify two research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yllias Chali , Deen Abdullah

Table-to-text generation, a long-standing challenge in natural language generation, has remained unexplored through the lens of subjectivity. Subjectivity here encompasses the comprehension of information derived from the table that cannot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Tathagata Dey , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

E-commerce search engines often rely solely on product titles as input for ranking models with latency constraints. However, this approach can result in suboptimal relevance predictions, as product titles often lack sufficient detail to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Nitin Yadav , Changsung Kang , Hongwei Shang , Ming Sun

Transforming dense, detailed, unstructured text into an interpretable and summarised table, also colloquially known as Text-to-Table generation, is an essential task for information retrieval. Current methods, however, miss out on how and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Naman Ahuja , Fenil Bardoliya , Chitta Baral , Vivek Gupta

Previous work for text summarization in scientific domain mainly focused on the content of the input document, but seldom considering its citation network. However, scientific papers are full of uncommon domain-specific terms, making it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Chenxin An , Ming Zhong , Yiran Chen , Danqing Wang , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

Tabular data analysis is crucial in various fields, and large language models show promise in this area. However, current research mostly focuses on rudimentary tasks like Text2SQL and TableQA, neglecting advanced analysis like forecasting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Xinyi He , Mengyu Zhou , Xinrun Xu , Xiaojun Ma , Rui Ding , Lun Du , Yan Gao , Ran Jia , Xu Chen , Shi Han , Zejian Yuan , Dongmei Zhang

Transforming unstructured text into structured data is a complex task, requiring semantic understanding, reasoning, and structural comprehension. While Large Language Models (LLMs) offer potential, they often struggle with handling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Rajmohan C , Sarthak Harne , Arvind Agarwal

Tables are often created with hierarchies, but existing works on table reasoning mainly focus on flat tables and neglect hierarchical tables. Hierarchical tables challenge existing methods by hierarchical indexing, as well as implicit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Zhoujun Cheng , Haoyu Dong , Zhiruo Wang , Ran Jia , Jiaqi Guo , Yan Gao , Shi Han , Jian-Guang Lou , Dongmei Zhang

Table Question Answering (TQA) presents a substantial challenge at the intersection of natural language processing and data analytics. This task involves answering natural language (NL) questions on top of tabular data, demanding…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Yunjia Zhang , Jordan Henkel , Avrilia Floratou , Joyce Cahoon , Shaleen Deep , Jignesh M. Patel

Query-focused summarization (QFS) requires generating a summary given a query using a set of relevant documents. However, such relevant documents should be annotated manually and thus are not readily available in realistic scenarios. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Weijia Zhang , Svitlana Vakulenko , Thilina Rajapakse , Yumo Xu , Evangelos Kanoulas

Charts are commonly used for exploring data and communicating insights. Generating natural language summaries from charts can be very helpful for people in inferring key insights that would otherwise require a lot of cognitive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Shankar Kantharaj , Rixie Tiffany Ko Leong , Xiang Lin , Ahmed Masry , Megh Thakkar , Enamul Hoque , Shafiq Joty

Table-to-text generation aims at automatically generating natural text to help people to conveniently obtain the important information in tables. Although neural models for table-to-text have achieved remarkable progress, some problems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Liang Li , Can Ma , Yinliang Yue , Linjun Shou , Dayong Hu

Evaluating long document summaries remains the primary bottleneck in summarization research. Existing metrics correlate weakly with human judgments and produce aggregate scores without explaining deficiencies or guiding improvement,…

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

Query-focused meeting summarization (QFMS) aims to generate summaries from meeting transcripts in response to a given query. Previous works typically concatenate the query with meeting transcripts and implicitly model the query relevance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Xingxian Liu , Bin Duan , Bo Xiao , Yajing Xu

Text summarization systems have made significant progress in recent years, but typically generate summaries in one single step. However, the one-shot summarization setting is sometimes inadequate, as the generated summary may contain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Haopeng Zhang , Xiao Liu , Jiawei Zhang

This paper presents ClinicSum, a novel framework designed to automatically generate clinical summaries from patient-doctor conversations. It utilizes a two-module architecture: a retrieval-based filtering module that extracts Subjective,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Subash Neupane , Himanshu Tripathi , Shaswata Mitra , Sean Bozorgzad , Sudip Mittal , Shahram Rahimi , Amin Amirlatifi

Query focused summarization (QFS) models aim to generate summaries from source documents that can answer the given query. Most previous work on QFS only considers the query relevance criterion when producing the summary. However, studying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Dan Su , Tiezheng Yu , Pascale Fung

In a typical customer service chat scenario, customers contact a support center to ask for help or raise complaints, and human agents try to solve the issues. In most cases, at the end of the conversation, agents are asked to write a short…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Guy Feigenblat , Chulaka Gunasekara , Benjamin Sznajder , Sachindra Joshi , David Konopnicki , Ranit Aharonov