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We investigate a new training paradigm for extractive summarization. Traditionally, human abstracts are used to derive goldstandard labels for extraction units. However, the labels are often inaccurate, because human abstracts and source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Kristjan Arumae , Fei Liu

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in modern search and answer systems to synthesize multiple, sometimes conflicting, texts into a single response, yet current pipelines offer weak incentives for sources to be accurate and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yanchen Jiang , Zhe Feng , Aranyak Mehta

Supervised approaches for text summarisation suffer from the problem of mismatch between the target labels/scores of individual sentences and the evaluation score of the final summary. Reinforcement learning can solve this problem by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Diego Molla

We introduce inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) as an effective paradigm for training abstractive summarization models, imitating human summarization behaviors. Our IRL model estimates the reward function using a suite of important…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Yu Fu , Deyi Xiong , Yue Dong

Improving factual consistency of abstractive summarization has been a widely studied topic. However, most of the prior works on training factuality-aware models have ignored the negative effect it has on summary quality. We propose EFACTSUM…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Tanay Dixit , Fei Wang , Muhao Chen

Abstractive text summarization is a highly difficult problem, and the sequence-to-sequence model has shown success in improving the performance on the task. However, the generated summaries are often inconsistent with the source content in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Bingzhen Wei , Xuancheng Ren , Xu Sun , Yi Zhang , Xiaoyan Cai , Qi Su

Grounded text generation systems often generate text that contains factual inconsistencies, hindering their real-world applicability. Automatic factual consistency evaluation may help alleviate this limitation by accelerating evaluation…

This paper presents a novel approach for unsupervised video summarization using reinforcement learning (RL), addressing limitations like unstable adversarial training and reliance on heuristic-based reward functions. The method operates on…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Mehryar Abbasi , Hadi Hadizadeh , Parvaneh Saeedi

We consider the problem of automatically generating a narrative biomedical evidence summary from multiple trial reports. We evaluate modern neural models for abstractive summarization of relevant article abstracts from systematic reviews…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Byron C. Wallace , Sayantan Saha , Frank Soboczenski , Iain J. Marshall

Document summarization condenses a long document into a short version with salient information and accurate semantic descriptions. The main issue is how to make the output summary semantically consistent with the input document. To reach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Mingyang Song , Liping Jing

Despite recent improvements in abstractive summarization, most current approaches generate summaries that are not factually consistent with the source document, severely restricting their trust and usage in real-world applications. Recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro , Mengwen Liu , Iryna Gurevych , Markus Dreyer , Mohit Bansal

Generating factual-consistent summaries is a challenging task for abstractive summarization. Previous works mainly encode factual information or perform post-correct/rank after decoding. In this paper, we provide a factual-consistent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Wei Liu , Huanqin Wu , Wenjing Mu , Zhen Li , Tao Chen , Dan Nie

Despite being able to generate fluent and grammatical text, current Seq2Seq summarization models still suffering from the unfaithful generation problem. In this paper, we study the faithfulness of existing systems from a new perspective of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Wenhao Wu , Wei Li , Jiachen Liu , Xinyan Xiao , Ziqiang Cao , Sujian Li , Hua Wu

Existing factual consistency evaluation approaches for text summarization provide binary predictions and limited insights into the weakness of summarization systems. Therefore, we propose the task of fine-grained inconsistency detection,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Hou Pong Chan , Qi Zeng , Heng Ji

This paper proposes a text summarization approach for factual reports using a deep learning model. This approach consists of three phases: feature extraction, feature enhancement, and summary generation, which work together to assimilate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Sukriti Verma , Vagisha Nidhi

A key challenge for abstractive summarization is ensuring factual consistency of the generated summary with respect to the original document. For example, state-of-the-art models trained on existing datasets exhibit entity hallucination,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Feng Nan , Ramesh Nallapati , Zhiguo Wang , Cicero Nogueira dos Santos , Henghui Zhu , Dejiao Zhang , Kathleen McKeown , Bing Xiang

Evaluating the factual consistency of abstractive text summarization remains a significant challenge, particularly for long documents, where conventional metrics struggle with input length limitations and long-range dependencies. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Zain Muhammad Mujahid , Dustin Wright , Isabelle Augenstein

Knowledge base population seeks to expand knowledge graphs with facts that are typically extracted from a text corpus. Recently, language models pretrained on large corpora have been shown to contain factual knowledge that can be retrieved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Andrés García-Silva , Cristian Berrío , José Manuel Gómez-Pérez

The exponential growth of textual data has created a crucial need for tools that assist users in extracting meaningful insights. Traditional document summarization approaches often fail to meet individual user requirements and lack…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Samira Ghodratnama , Amin Beheshti , Mehrdad Zakershahrak

State-of-the-art abstractive summarization systems often generate \emph{hallucinations}; i.e., content that is not directly inferable from the source text. Despite being assumed incorrect, we find that much hallucinated content is factual,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Meng Cao , Yue Dong , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung