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Twitter updates now represent an enormous stream of information originating from a wide variety of formal and informal sources, much of which is relevant to real-world events. In this paper we adapt existing bio-surveillance algorithms to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-04-10 Nicholas Thapen , Donal Simmie , Chris Hankin

Previous research in multi-document news summarization has typically concentrated on collating information that all sources agree upon. However, the summarization of diverse information dispersed across multiple articles about an event…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Kung-Hsiang Huang , Philippe Laban , Alexander R. Fabbri , Prafulla Kumar Choubey , Shafiq Joty , Caiming Xiong , Chien-Sheng Wu

Neural network-based methods for abstractive summarization produce outputs that are more fluent than other techniques, but which can be poor at content selection. This work proposes a simple technique for addressing this issue: use a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Sebastian Gehrmann , Yuntian Deng , Alexander M. Rush

This paper proposes a text summarization approach for factual reports using a deep learning model. This approach consists of three phases: feature extraction, feature enhancement, and summary generation, which work together to assimilate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Sukriti Verma , Vagisha Nidhi

Document structure is critical for efficient information consumption. However, it is challenging to encode it efficiently into the modern Transformer architecture. In this work, we present HIBRIDS, which injects Hierarchical Biases foR…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Shuyang Cao , Lu Wang

Despite significant progress has been achieved in text summarization, factual inconsistency in generated summaries still severely limits its practical applications. Among the key factors to ensure factual consistency, a reliable automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Yuexiang Xie , Fei Sun , Yang Deng , Yaliang Li , Bolin Ding

Nowadays, we are surrounded by more and more online news articles. Tens or hundreds of news articles need to be read if we wish to explore a hot news event or topic. So it is of vital importance to automatically synthesize a batch of news…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Hui Liu , Wentao Qin , Xiaojun Wan

Live blogs are an increasingly popular news format to cover breaking news and live events in online journalism. Online news websites around the world are using this medium to give their readers a minute by minute update on an event. Good…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Avinesh P. V. S. , Maxime Peyrard , Christian M. Meyer

While popular televised events such as presidential debates or TV shows are airing, people provide commentary on them in real-time. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective approach to combine social media commentary and videos to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Anietie Andy , Siyi Liu , Daphne Ippolito , Reno Kriz , Chris Callison-Burch , Derry Wijaya

We introduce \emph{Nutri-bullets}, a multi-document summarization task for health and nutrition. First, we present two datasets of food and health summaries from multiple scientific studies. Furthermore, we propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Darsh J Shah , Lili Yu , Tao Lei , Regina Barzilay

Automatic summarisation has been used efficiently in recent years to condense texts, conversations, audio, code, and various other artefacts. A range of methods, from simple template-based summaries to complex machine learning techniques --…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Najam Nazar , Sameer Sikka , Christoph Treude

Automatic summarization techniques aim to shorten and generalize information given in the text while preserving its core message and the most relevant ideas. This task can be approached and treated with a variety of methods, however, not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Alexandr Nikolich , Arina Puchkova

In this paper we present an approach to extract ordered timelines of events, their participants, locations and times from a set of multilingual and cross-lingual data sources. Based on the assumption that event-related information can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Egoitz Laparra , Rodrigo Agerri , Itziar Aldabe , German Rigau

People nowadays use search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing to find information on the Internet. Due to explosion in data, it is helpful for users if they are provided relevant summaries of the search results rather than just links to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Tohida Rehman , Suchandan Das , Debarshi Kumar Sanyal , Samiran Chattopadhyay

Currently, no large-scale training data is available for the task of scientific paper summarization. In this paper, we propose a novel method that automatically generates summaries for scientific papers, by utilizing videos of talks at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Guy Lev , Michal Shmueli-Scheuer , Jonathan Herzig , Achiya Jerbi , David Konopnicki

Multi-document summarization entails producing concise synopses of collections of inputs. For some applications, the synopsis should accurately synthesize inputs with respect to a key aspect, e.g., a synopsis of film reviews written about a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Jay DeYoung , Stephanie C. Martinez , Iain J. Marshall , Byron C. Wallace

Faceted summarization provides briefings of a document from different perspectives. Readers can quickly comprehend the main points of a long document with the help of a structured outline. However, little research has been conducted on this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Rui Meng , Khushboo Thaker , Lei Zhang , Yue Dong , Xingdi Yuan , Tong Wang , Daqing He

As the amount of user-generated textual content grows rapidly, text summarization algorithms are increasingly being used to provide users a quick overview of the information content. Traditionally, summarization algorithms have been…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Abhisek Dash , Anurag Shandilya , Arindam Biswas , Kripabandhu Ghosh , Saptarshi Ghosh , Abhijnan Chakraborty

Understanding how events evolve over time is essential for search engines handling queries about trending news. We present QDET (Query-Driven Event Timeline Summarization), a production system deployed on Baidu Search that constructs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Mingyue Wang , Xingyu Xie , Hang Yang , Li Gao , Lixin Su , Ge Chen , Dawei Yin , Daiting Shi

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Prompt Engineering have made chatbot customization more accessible, significantly reducing barriers to tasks that previously required programming skills. However, prompt evaluation,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Sam Yu-Te Lee , Aryaman Bahukhandi , Dongyu Liu , Kwan-Liu Ma