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The recent growth of web video sharing platforms has increased the demand for systems that can efficiently browse, retrieve and summarize video content. Query-aware multi-video summarization is a promising technique that caters to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Safa Messaoud , Ismini Lourentzou , Assma Boughoula , Mona Zehni , Zhizhen Zhao , Chengxiang Zhai , Alexander G. Schwing

Summarization is the task of compressing source document(s) into coherent and succinct passages. This is a valuable tool to present users with concise and accurate sketch of the top ranked documents related to their queries. Query-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Sayali Kulkarni , Sheide Chammas , Wan Zhu , Fei Sha , Eugene Ie

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

Abstract. When writing an academic paper, researchers often spend considerable time reviewing and summarizing papers to extract relevant citations and data to compose the Introduction and Related Work sections. To address this problem, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Juan Ramirez-Orta , Eduardo Xamena , Ana Maguitman , Axel J. Soto , Flavia P. Zanoto , Evangelos Milios

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

Aspect-based summarization aims to generate summaries that highlight specific aspects of a text, enabling more personalized and targeted summaries. However, its application to books remains unexplored due to the difficulty of constructing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ryuhei Miyazato , Ting-Ruen Wei , Xuyang Wu , Hsin-Tai Wu , Kei Harada

The Query Focused Text Summarization (QFTS) task aims at building systems that generate the summary of the text document(s) based on the given query. A key challenge in addressing this task is the lack of large labeled data for training the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar , Enamul Hoque , Jimmy Xiangji Huang

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

Reasoning over tabular data is a crucial capability for tasks like question answering and fact verification, as it requires models to comprehend both free-form questions and semi-structured tables. However, while methods like…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Qixian Huang , Hongqiang Lin , Tong Fu , Yingsen Wang , Zhenghui Fu , Qirui Wang , Yiding Sun , Dongxu Zhang

Automatic meeting summarization is becoming increasingly popular these days. The ability to automatically summarize meetings and to extract key information could greatly increase the efficiency of our work and life. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Andras Huebner , Wei Ji , Xiang Xiao

Knowledge Graphs (KGs) integrate heterogeneous data, but one challenge is the development of efficient tools for allowing end users to extract useful insights from these sources of knowledge. In such a context, reducing the size of a…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Emetis Niazmand , Gezim Sejdiu , Damien Graux , Maria-Esther Vidal

Query-focused summarization over multi-table data is a challenging yet critical task for extracting precise and relevant information from structured data. Existing methods often rely on complex preprocessing steps and struggle to generalize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Xiaochuan Lin , Xiangyong Chen

Language Models (LMs) have revolutionized natural language processing, enabling high-quality text generation through prompting and in-context learning. However, models often struggle with long-context summarization due to positional biases,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Neelabh Sinha

Product recommendations inherently involve comparisons, yet traditional opinion summarization often fails to provide holistic comparative insights. We propose the novel task of generating Query-Focused Comparative Explainable Summaries…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Arnav Attri , Anuj Attri , Pushpak Bhattacharyya , Suman Banerjee , Amey Patil , Muthusamy Chelliah , Nikesh Garera

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-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 KFS-Bench, the first benchmark for key frame sampling in long video question answering (QA), featuring multi-scene annotations to enable direct and robust evaluation of sampling strategies. Key frame sampling is crucial for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Zongyao Li , Kengo Ishida , Satoshi Yamazaki , Xiaotong Ji , Jianquan Liu

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

Long document summarization remains a significant challenge for current large language models (LLMs), as existing approaches commonly struggle with information loss, factual inconsistencies, and coherence issues when processing excessively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Weixuan Wang , Minghao Wu , Barry Haddow , Alexandra Birch

Unsupervised summarization methods have achieved remarkable results by incorporating representations from pre-trained language models. However, existing methods fail to consider efficiency and effectiveness at the same time when the input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Xinnian Liang , Jing Li , Shuangzhi Wu , Jiali Zeng , Yufan Jiang , Mu Li , Zhoujun Li