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With the broad growth of video capturing devices and applications on the web, it is more demanding to provide desired video content for users efficiently. Video summarization facilitates quickly grasping video content by creating a compact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Mayu Otani , Yale Song , Yang Wang

Automatic summarization of mass-emergency events plays a critical role in disaster management. The second edition of CrisisFACTS aims to advance disaster summarization based on multi-stream fact-finding with a focus on web sources such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Philipp Seeberger , Korbinian Riedhammer

Text summarization is the research area aiming at creating a short and condensed version of the original document, which conveys the main idea of the document in a few words. This research topic has started to attract the attention of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Shen Gao , Xiuying Chen , Zhaochun Ren , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan

The increasing demand for efficient summarization tools in resource-constrained environments highlights the need for effective solutions. While large language models (LLMs) deliver superior summarization quality, their high computational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Borui Xu , Yao Chen , Zeyi Wen , Weiguo Liu , Bingsheng He

We introduce the task of historical text summarisation, where documents in historical forms of a language are summarised in the corresponding modern language. This is a fundamentally important routine to historians and digital humanities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Xutan Peng , Yi Zheng , Chenghua Lin , Advaith Siddharthan

While the NLP community has produced numerous summarization benchmarks, none provide the rich annotations required to simultaneously address many important problems related to control and reliability. We introduce a Wikipedia-derived…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Kundan Krishna , Prakhar Gupta , Sanjana Ramprasad , Byron C. Wallace , Jeffrey P. Bigham , Zachary C. Lipton

Our goal is to find combinations of facts that optimally summarize data sets. We consider this problem in the context of voice query interfaces for simple, exploratory data analysis. Here, the system answers voice queries with a short…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Immanuel Trummer , Connor Anderson

Cross-lingual summarization is the task of generating a summary in one language (e.g., English) for the given document(s) in a different language (e.g., Chinese). Under the globalization background, this task has attracted increasing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Jiaan Wang , Fandong Meng , Duo Zheng , Yunlong Liang , Zhixu Li , Jianfeng Qu , Jie Zhou

We present a novel system providing summaries for Computer Science publications. Through a qualitative user study, we identified the most valuable scenarios for discovery, exploration and understanding of scientific documents. Based on…

Text summarization plays a crucial role in natural language processing by condensing large volumes of text into concise and coherent summaries. As digital content continues to grow rapidly and the demand for effective information retrieval…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Tohida Rehman , Soumabha Ghosh , Kuntal Das , Souvik Bhattacharjee , Debarshi Kumar Sanyal , Samiran Chattopadhyay

Text summarization is a fundamental task in natural language processing (NLP), and the information explosion has made long-document processing increasingly demanding, making summarization essential. Existing research mainly focuses on model…

Automatic text summarization has experienced substantial progress in recent years. With this progress, the question has arisen whether the types of summaries that are typically generated by automatic summarization models align with users'…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Maartje ter Hoeve , Julia Kiseleva , Maarten de Rijke

The lack of proper documentation makes program comprehension a cumbersome process for developers. Source code summarization is one of the existing solutions to this problem. Lots of approaches have been proposed to summarize source code in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Alireza Aghamohammadi , Maliheh Izadi , Abbas Heydarnoori

The scarcity of comprehensive up-to-date studies on evaluation metrics for text summarization and the lack of consensus regarding evaluation protocols continue to inhibit progress. We address the existing shortcomings of summarization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Alexander R. Fabbri , Wojciech Kryściński , Bryan McCann , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher , Dragomir Radev

This paper introduces ReflectSumm, a novel summarization dataset specifically designed for summarizing students' reflective writing. The goal of ReflectSumm is to facilitate developing and evaluating novel summarization techniques tailored…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yang Zhong , Mohamed Elaraby , Diane Litman , Ahmed Ashraf Butt , Muhsin Menekse

As news reporting becomes increasingly global and decentralized online, tracking related events across multiple sources presents significant challenges. Existing news summarization methods typically utilizes Large Language Models and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Tiviatis Sim , Kaiwen Yang , Shen Xin , Kenji Kawaguchi

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise for automatic summarization but the reasons behind their successes are poorly understood. By conducting a human evaluation on ten LLMs across different pretraining methods, prompts, and model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Tianyi Zhang , Faisal Ladhak , Esin Durmus , Percy Liang , Kathleen McKeown , Tatsunori B. Hashimoto

The technology of automatic document summarization is maturing and may provide a solution to the information overload problem. Nowadays, document summarization plays an important role in information retrieval. With a large volume of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-04-10 Mohsen Pourvali , Mohammad Saniee Abadeh

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 use of microblogging platforms such as Twitter during crises has become widespread. More importantly, information disseminated by affected people contains useful information like reports of missing and found people, requests for urgent…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Koustav Rudra , Siddhartha Banerjee , Niloy Ganguly , Pawan Goyal , Muhammad Imran , Prasenjit Mitra