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We propose SUSIE, a novel summarization method that can work with state-of-the-art summarization models in order to produce structured scientific summaries for academic articles. We also created PMC-SA, a new dataset of academic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Alexios Gidiotis , Grigorios Tsoumakas

Despite recent advancements in automatic summarization, state-of-the-art models do not summarize all documents equally well, raising the question: why? While prior research has extensively analyzed summarization models, little attention has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Steven Koniaev , Ori Ernst , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

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

Evaluation of a document summarization system has been a critical factor to impact the success of the summarization task. Previous approaches, such as ROUGE, mainly consider the informativeness of the assessed summary and require…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Hanlu Wu , Tengfei Ma , Lingfei Wu , Tariro Manyumwa , Shouling Ji

Human evaluation is the foundation upon which the evaluation of both summarization systems and automatic metrics rests. However, existing human evaluation studies for summarization either exhibit a low inter-annotator agreement or have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Yixin Liu , Alexander R. Fabbri , Pengfei Liu , Yilun Zhao , Linyong Nan , Ruilin Han , Simeng Han , Shafiq Joty , Chien-Sheng Wu , Caiming Xiong , Dragomir Radev

This paper investigates reproducibility challenges in automatic text summarization evaluation. Based on experiments conducted across six representative metrics ranging from classical approaches like ROUGE to recent LLM-based methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Tanguy Herserant , Vincent Guigue

The proliferation of video content on platforms like YouTube and Vimeo presents significant challenges in efficiently locating relevant information. Automatic video summarization aims to address this by extracting and presenting key content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Jia-Hong Huang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have spurred interest in automatic evaluation methods for summarization, offering a faster, more cost-effective alternative to human evaluation. However, existing methods often fall short when applied to complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Ziwei Gong , Lin Ai , Harshsaiprasad Deshpande , Alexander Johnson , Emmy Phung , Zehui Wu , Ahmad Emami , Julia Hirschberg

Text summarization aims at compressing long documents into a shorter form that conveys the most important parts of the original document. Despite increased interest in the community and notable research effort, progress on benchmark…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Wojciech Kryściński , Nitish Shirish Keskar , Bryan McCann , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

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

Text summarization is a user-preference based task, i.e., for one document, users often have different priorities for summary. As a key aspect of customization in summarization, granularity is used to measure the semantic coverage between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Ming Zhong , Yang Liu , Suyu Ge , Yuning Mao , Yizhu Jiao , Xingxing Zhang , Yichong Xu , Chenguang Zhu , Michael Zeng , Jiawei Han

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have emerged to tackle the challenges of Visual Question Answering (VQA), sparking a new research focus on conducting objective evaluations of these models. Existing evaluation methods face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Qihui Zhang , Munan Ning , Zheyuan Liu , Yanbo Wang , Jiayi Ye , Yue Huang , Shuo Yang , Xiao Chen , Yibing Song , Li Yuan

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

We propose SumQE, a novel Quality Estimation model for summarization based on BERT. The model addresses linguistic quality aspects that are only indirectly captured by content-based approaches to summary evaluation, without involving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Stratos Xenouleas , Prodromos Malakasiotis , Marianna Apidianaki , Ion Androutsopoulos

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

Multimodal abstractive summarization (MAS) aims to produce a concise summary given the multimodal data (text and vision). Existing studies mainly focus on how to effectively use the visual features from the perspective of an article, having…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Yunlong Liang , Fandong Meng , Jinan Xu , Jiaan Wang , Yufeng Chen , Jie Zhou

To adapt text summarization to the multilingual world, previous work proposes multi-lingual summarization (MLS) and cross-lingual summarization (CLS). However, these two tasks have been studied separately due to the different definitions,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Jiaan Wang , Fandong Meng , Duo Zheng , Yunlong Liang , Zhixu Li , Jianfeng Qu , Jie Zhou

Existing multi-document summarization systems usually rely on a specific summarization model (i.e., a summarization method with a specific parameter setting) to extract summaries for different document sets with different topics. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-07-09 Xiaojun Wan , Ziqiang Cao , Furu Wei , Sujian Li , Ming Zhou

Meeting summarization with large language models (LLMs) remains error-prone, often producing outputs with hallucinations, omissions, and irrelevancies. We present FRAME, a modular pipeline that reframes summarization as a semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Frederic Kirstein , Sonu Kumar , Terry Ruas , Bela Gipp

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