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Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have led to new summarization strategies, offering an extensive toolkit for extracting important information. However, these approaches are frequently limited by their reliance on isolated…

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A critical point of multi-document summarization (MDS) is to learn the relations among various documents. In this paper, we propose a novel abstractive MDS model, in which we represent multiple documents as a heterogeneous graph, taking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Peng Cui , Le Hu

Most research on abstractive summarization focuses on single-domain applications, often neglecting how domain shifts between documents affect performance and the generalization ability of summarization models. To address this issue, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Haohan Yuan , Haopeng Zhang

Multi-document summarization (MDS) generates a summary from a document set. Each document in a set describes topic-relevant concepts, while per document also has its unique contents. However, the document specificity receives little…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Congbo Ma , Wei Emma Zhang , Hu Wang , Haojie Zhuang , Mingyu Guo

Huge amount of information is present in the World Wide Web and a large amount is being added to it frequently. A query-specific summary of multiple documents is very helpful to the user in this context. Currently, few systems have been…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-01-20 C Ravindranath Chowdary , P Sreenivasa Kumar

We investigate a critical yet under-explored question in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs): Do LVLMs genuinely comprehend interleaved image-text in the document? Existing document understanding benchmarks often assess LVLMs using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Haolong Yan , Kaijun Tan , Yeqing Shen , Xin Huang , Zheng Ge , Xiangyu Zhang , Si Li , Daxin Jiang

Information extraction from copy-heavy documents, characterized by massive volumes of structurally similar content, represents a critical yet understudied challenge in enterprise document processing. We present a systematic framework that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zilong Wang , Xiaoyu Shen

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated superior performance in listwise passage reranking task. However, directly applying them to rank long-form documents introduces both effectiveness and efficiency issues due to the substantially…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Jincheng Feng , Wenhan Liu , Zhicheng Dou

While neural sequence learning methods have made significant progress in single-document summarization (SDS), they produce unsatisfactory results on multi-document summarization (MDS). We observe two major challenges when adapting SDS…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Yuning Mao , Yanru Qu , Yiqing Xie , Xiang Ren , Jiawei Han

Open-domain Timeline Summarization (TLS) is crucial for monitoring the evolution of news topics. To identify changes in news topics, existing methods typically employ general Large Language Models (LLMs) to summarize relevant timestamps…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Chuanrui Hu , Wei Hu , Penghang Yu , Hua Zhang , Bing-Kun Bao

Personalized multi-document summarization (MDS) is essential for meeting individual user preferences of writing style and content focus for summaries. In this paper, we propose that for effective personalization, it is important to identify…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Haoyuan Li , Snigdha Chaturvedi

Existing approaches for low-resource text summarization primarily employ large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3 or GPT-4 at inference time to generate summaries directly; however, such approaches often suffer from inconsistent LLM outputs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Gaurav Sahu , Olga Vechtomova , Issam H. Laradji

The multi-document summarization task requires the designed summarizer to generate a short text that covers the important information of original documents and satisfies content diversity. This paper proposes a multi-document summarization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Bing Ma

In the Query Focused Multi-Document Summarization (QF-MDS) task, a set of documents and a query are given where the goal is to generate a summary from these documents based on the given query. However, one major challenge for this task is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar , Enamul Hoque , Jimmy Xiangji Huang

Most recently, researchers have started building large language models (LLMs) powered data systems that allow users to analyze unstructured text documents like working with a database because LLMs are very effective in extracting attributes…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Zhaoze Sun , Qiyan Deng , Chengliang Chai , Kaisen Jin , Xinyu Guo , Han Han , Ye Yuan , Guoren Wang , Lei Cao

The core challenge faced by multi-document summarization is the complexity of relationships among documents and the presence of information redundancy. Graph clustering is an effective paradigm for addressing this issue, as it models the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Yongbing Zhang , Fang Nan , Shengxiang Gao , Yuxin Huang , Kaiwen Tan , Zhengtao Yu

We present a novel divide-and-conquer method for the neural summarization of long documents. Our method exploits the discourse structure of the document and uses sentence similarity to split the problem into an ensemble of smaller…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Alexios Gidiotis , Grigorios Tsoumakas

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising performance in summary evaluation tasks, yet they face challenges such as high computational costs and the Lost-in-the-Middle problem where important information in the middle of long…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Yunshu Wu , Hayate Iso , Pouya Pezeshkpour , Nikita Bhutani , Estevam Hruschka

Concept maps can be used to concisely represent important information and bring structure into large document collections. Therefore, we study a variant of multi-document summarization that produces summaries in the form of concept maps.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Tobias Falke , Iryna Gurevych

Automatic summarization of legal case documents is an important and practical challenge. Apart from many domain-independent text summarization algorithms that can be used for this purpose, several algorithms have been developed specifically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Paheli Bhattacharya , Soham Poddar , Koustav Rudra , Kripabandhu Ghosh , Saptarshi Ghosh