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Text summarization condenses a text to a shorter version while retaining the important informations. Abstractive summarization is a recent development that generates new phrases, rather than simply copying or rephrasing sentences within the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-06 André Cibils , Claudiu Musat , Andreea Hossman , Michael Baeriswyl

Specifically focusing on the landscape of abstractive text summarization, as opposed to extractive techniques, this survey presents a comprehensive overview, delving into state-of-the-art techniques, prevailing challenges, and prospective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Hassan Shakil , Ahmad Farooq , Jugal Kalita

Recent years have brought about an interest in the challenging task of summarizing conversation threads (meetings, online discussions, etc.). Such summaries help analysis of the long text to quickly catch up with the decisions made and thus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Shiyue Zhang , Asli Celikyilmaz , Jianfeng Gao , Mohit Bansal

News summarization in today's global scene can be daunting with its flood of multilingual content and varied viewpoints from different sources. However, current studies often neglect such real-world scenarios as they tend to focus solely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yangfan Ye , Xiachong Feng , Xiaocheng Feng , Weitao Ma , Libo Qin , Dongliang Xu , Qing Yang , Hongtao Liu , Bing Qin

Automatic summarisation is a popular approach to reduce a document to its main arguments. Recent research in the area has focused on neural approaches to summarisation, which can be very data-hungry. However, few large datasets exist and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Ed Collins , Isabelle Augenstein , Sebastian Riedel

Text Summarization is the task of condensing long text into just a handful of sentences. Many approaches have been proposed for this task, some of the very first were building statistical models (Extractive Methods) capable of selecting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Amr M. Zaki , Mahmoud I. Khalil , Hazem M. Abbas

In recent years, there has been a explosion in the amount of text data from a variety of sources. This volume of text is an invaluable source of information and knowledge which needs to be effectively summarized to be useful. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Mehdi Allahyari , Seyedamin Pouriyeh , Mehdi Assefi , Saeid Safaei , Elizabeth D. Trippe , Juan B. Gutierrez , Krys Kochut

The substantial growth of textual content in diverse domains and platforms has led to a considerable need for Automatic Text Summarization (ATS) techniques that aid in the process of text analysis. The effectiveness of text summarization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Nevidu Jayatilleke , Ruvan Weerasinghe , Nipuna Senanayake

We propose a summarization approach for scientific articles which takes advantage of citation-context and the document discourse model. While citations have been previously used in generating scientific summaries, they lack the related…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Arman Cohan , Nazli Goharian

Query-based text summarization is an important real world problem that requires to condense the prolix text data into a summary under the guidance of the query information provided by users. The topic has been studied for a long time and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Hang Yu , Jiawei Han

This paper presents TL;DR Progress, a new tool for exploring the literature on neural text summarization. It organizes 514~papers based on a comprehensive annotation scheme for text summarization approaches and enables fine-grained, faceted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Shahbaz Syed , Khalid Al-Khatib , Martin Potthast

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly using external web content. However, much of this content is not easily digestible by LLMs due to LLM-unfriendly formats and limitations of context length. To address this issue, we propose a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-18 William Brach , Kristián Košťál , Lukas Galke Poech

Large language models (LLMs) excel in abstractive summarization tasks, delivering fluent and pertinent summaries. Recent advancements have extended their capabilities to handle long-input contexts, exceeding 100k tokens. However, in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Mathieu Ravaut , Aixin Sun , Nancy F. Chen , Shafiq Joty

The amount of text data available online is increasing at a very fast pace hence text summarization has become essential. Most of the modern recommender and text classification systems require going through a huge amount of data. Manually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Anushka Gupta , Diksha Chugh , Anjum , Rahul Katarya

Existing summarization systems mostly generate summaries purely relying on the content of the source document. However, even for humans, we usually need some references or exemplars to help us fully understand the source document and write…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Chenxin An , Ming Zhong , Zhichao Geng , Jianqiang Yang , Xipeng Qiu

As online platforms and recommendation algorithms evolve, people are increasingly trapped in echo chambers, leading to biased understandings of various issues. To combat this issue, we have introduced PerSphere, a benchmark designed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Yun Luo , Yingjie Li , Xiangkun Hu , Qinglin Qi , Fang Guo , Qipeng Guo , Zheng Zhang , Yue Zhang

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

We are developing an automatic method to compile an encyclopedic corpus from the Web. In our previous work, paragraph-style descriptions for a term are extracted from Web pages and organized based on domains. However, these descriptions are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Atsushi Fujii , Tetsuya Ishikawa

Dialogue summarization comes with its own peculiar challenges as opposed to news or scientific articles summarization. In this work, we explore four different challenges of the task: handling and differentiating parts of the dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Muhammad Khalifa , Miguel Ballesteros , Kathleen McKeown