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Query-focused summarization (QFS) aims to provide a summary of a document that satisfies information need of a given query and is useful in various IR applications, such as abstractive snippet generation. Current QFS approaches typically…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Zhichao Xu , Daniel Cohen

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

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

Query-focused summarization (QFS) is a fundamental task in natural language processing with broad applications, including search engines and report generation. However, traditional approaches assume the availability of relevant documents,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Weijia Zhang , Jia-Hong Huang , Svitlana Vakulenko , Yumo Xu , Thilina Rajapakse , Evangelos Kanoulas

Query-focused summarization (QFS) is the task of generating a summary in response to a user-written query. Despite its user-oriented nature, there has been limited work in QFS in explicitly considering a user's understanding of a generated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Cesare Spinoso-Di Piano , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

Query-focused summarization (QFS) aims to produce summaries that answer particular questions of interest, enabling greater user control and personalization. While recently released datasets, such as QMSum or AQuaMuSe, facilitate research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Jesse Vig , Alexander R. Fabbri , Wojciech Kryściński , Chien-Sheng Wu , Wenhao Liu

Review-based Product Question Answering (PQA) allows e-commerce platforms to automatically address customer queries by leveraging insights from user reviews. However, existing PQA systems generate answers with only a single perspective,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 An Quang Tang , Xiuzhen Zhang , Minh Ngoc Dinh , Zhuang Li

Query-focused summarization (QFS) aims to extract or generate a summary of an input document that directly answers or is relevant to a given query. The lack of large-scale datasets in the form of documents, queries, and summaries has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Ruochen Xu , Song Wang , Yang Liu , Shuohang Wang , Yichong Xu , Dan Iter , Chenguang Zhu , Michael Zeng

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,…

The availability of large-scale datasets has driven the development of neural models that create generic summaries from single or multiple documents. In this work we consider query focused summarization (QFS), a task for which training data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Yumo Xu , Mirella Lapata

People primarily consult tables to conduct data analysis or answer specific questions. Text generation systems that can provide accurate table summaries tailored to users' information needs can facilitate more efficient access to relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Yilun Zhao , Zhenting Qi , Linyong Nan , Boyu Mi , Yixin Liu , Weijin Zou , Simeng Han , Ruizhe Chen , Xiangru Tang , Yumo Xu , Dragomir Radev , Arman Cohan

Query-based document summarization aims to extract or generate a summary of a document which directly answers or is relevant to the search query. It is an important technique that can be beneficial to a variety of applications such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Mingjun Zhao , Shengli Yan , Bang Liu , Xinwang Zhong , Qian Hao , Haolan Chen , Di Niu , Bowei Long , Weidong Guo

Cross-lingual summarization (CLS) is a sophisticated branch in Natural Language Processing that demands models to accurately translate and summarize articles from different source languages. Despite the improvement of the subsequent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Sanzana Karim Lora , M. Sohel Rahman , Rifat Shahriyar

Query Focused Summarization (QFS) has been addressed mostly using extractive methods. Such methods, however, produce text which suffers from low coherence. We investigate how abstractive methods can be applied to QFS, to overcome such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Tal Baumel , Matan Eyal , Michael Elhadad

Query-focused summarization (QFS) gives a summary of documents to answer a query. Past QFS work assumes queries have one answer, ignoring debatable ones (Is law school worth it?). We introduce Debatable QFS (DQFS), a task to create…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Nishant Balepur , Alexa Siu , Nedim Lipka , Franck Dernoncourt , Tong Sun , Jordan Boyd-Graber , Puneet Mathur

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

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enables large language models to provide more precise and pertinent responses by incorporating external knowledge. In the Query-Focused Summarization (QFS) task, GraphRAG-based approaches have notably…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Yubin Hong , Chaofan Li , Jingyi Zhang , Yingxia Shao

Query-focused Summarization (QfS) deals with systems that generate summaries from document(s) based on a query. Motivated by the insight that Reinforcement Learning (RL) provides a generalization to Supervised Learning (SL) for Natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Swaroop Nath , Harshad Khadilkar , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

We propose Generation-Augmented Retrieval (GAR) for answering open-domain questions, which augments a query through text generation of heuristically discovered relevant contexts without external resources as supervision. We demonstrate that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Yuning Mao , Pengcheng He , Xiaodong Liu , Yelong Shen , Jianfeng Gao , Jiawei Han , Weizhu Chen

Query-focused meeting summarization(QFMS) aims to generate a specific summary for the given query according to the meeting transcripts. Due to the conflict between long meetings and limited input size, previous works mainly adopt…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Xingxian Liu , Yajing Xu
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