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Text Summarization is recognised as one of the NLP downstream tasks and it has been extensively investigated in recent years. It can assist people with perceiving the information rapidly from the Internet, including news articles, social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Guan Wang , Weihua Li , Edmund Lai , Jianhua Jiang

Practical applications of abstractive summarization models are limited by frequent factual inconsistencies with respect to their input. Existing automatic evaluation metrics for summarization are largely insensitive to such errors. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Alex Wang , Kyunghyun Cho , Mike Lewis

The paper presents our system developed for table question answering (TQA). TQA tasks face challenges due to the characteristics of real-world tabular data, such as large size, incomplete column semantics, and entity ambiguity. To address…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Sishi Xiong , Dakai Wang , Yu Zhao , Jie Zhang , Changzai Pan , Haowei He , Xiangyu Li , Wenhan Chang , Zhongjiang He , Shuangyong Song , Yongxiang Li

Mathematical equations are an important part of dissemination and communication of scientific information. Students, however, often feel challenged in reading and understanding math content and equations. With the development of the Web,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Ke Yuan , Dafang He , Zhuoren Jiang , Liangcai Gao , Zhi Tang , C. Lee Giles

Query-focused summarization (QFS) is a challenging task in natural language processing that generates summaries to address specific queries. The broader field of Generative Information Retrieval (Gen-IR) aims to revolutionize information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Sajad Sotudeh , Nazli Goharian

With the rapid advancement of Natural Language Processing in recent years, numerous studies have shown that generic summaries generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) can sometimes surpass those annotated by experts, such as journalists,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Lemei Zhang , Peng Liu , Marcus Tiedemann Oekland Henriksboe , Even W. Lauvrak , Jon Atle Gulla , Heri Ramampiaro

In the dynamic landscape of large-scale web search, Query-Driven Text Summarization (QDTS) aims to generate concise and informative summaries from textual documents based on a given query, which is essential for improving user engagement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Zeyu Xiong , Yixuan Nan , Li Gao , Hengzhu Tang , Shuaiqiang Wang , Junfeng Wang , Dawei Yin

Tabular data is prevalent across various industries, necessitating significant time and effort for users to understand and manipulate for their information-seeking purposes. The advancements in large language models (LLMs) have shown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Yilun Zhao , Haowei Zhang , Shengyun Si , Linyong Nan , Xiangru Tang , Arman Cohan

Existing table question answering datasets contain abundant factual questions that primarily evaluate the query and schema comprehension capability of a system, but they fail to include questions that require complex reasoning and…

Summarization datasets are often assembled either by scraping naturally occurring public-domain summaries -- which are nearly always in difficult-to-work-with technical domains -- or by using approximate heuristics to extract them from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Alex Wang , Richard Yuanzhe Pang , Angelica Chen , Jason Phang , Samuel R. Bowman

While large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in the table question answering (TQA) task through prompt engineering, they face challenges in industrial applications, including structural heterogeneity, difficulties in target data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Sishi Xiong , Ziyang He , Zhongjiang He , Yu Zhao , Changzai Pan , Jie Zhang , Zhenhe Wu , Shuangyong Song , Yongxiang Li

The exponential growth of scientific publications has made it increasingly difficult for researchers to stay updated and synthesize knowledge effectively. This paper presents XSum, a modular pipeline for multi-document summarization (MDS)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Pierre Achkar , Tim Gollub , Martin Potthast

Abstractive Speech Summarization (SSum) aims to generate human-like text summaries from spoken content. It encounters difficulties in handling long speech input and capturing the intricate cross-modal mapping between long speech inputs and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Hengchao Shang , Zongyao Li , Jiaxin Guo , Shaojun Li , Zhiqiang Rao , Yuanchang Luo , Daimeng Wei , Hao Yang

Tabular data is ubiquitous in real-world applications and abundant on the web, yet its annotation has traditionally required human labor, posing a significant scalability bottleneck for tabular machine learning. Our methodology can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yaojie Hu , Ilias Fountalis , Jin Tian , Nikolaos Vasiloglou

Recent advances in tabular question answering (QA) with large language models are constrained in their coverage and only answer questions over a single table. However, real-world queries are complex in nature, often over multiple tables in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Vaishali Pal , Andrew Yates , Evangelos Kanoulas , Maarten de Rijke

Most existing cross-lingual summarization (CLS) work constructs CLS corpora by simply and directly translating pre-annotated summaries from one language to another, which can contain errors from both summarization and translation processes.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Yulong Chen , Huajian Zhang , Yijie Zhou , Xuefeng Bai , Yueguan Wang , Ming Zhong , Jianhao Yan , Yafu Li , Judy Li , Michael Zhu , Yue Zhang

The progress in text summarization techniques has been remarkable. However the task of accurately extracting and summarizing necessary information from highly specialized documents such as research papers has not been sufficiently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Yuya Fujisaki , Shiro Takagi , Hideki Asoh , Wataru Kumagai

High quality SQL corpus is essential for intelligent database. For example, Text-to-SQL requires SQL queries and correspond natural language questions as training samples. However, collecting such query corpus remains challenging in…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jiahui Li , Tongwang Wu , Yuren Mao , Yunjun Gao , Yajie Feng , Huaizhong Liu

Several recent works have suggested to represent semantic relations with questions and answers, decomposing textual information into separate interrogative natural language statements. In this paper, we consider three QA-based semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Ayal Klein , Eran Hirsch , Ron Eliav , Valentina Pyatkin , Avi Caciularu , Ido Dagan

The use of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to retrieve relevant information from an external knowledge source enables large language models (LLMs) to answer questions over private and/or previously unseen document collections. However,…