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Despite substantial progress in abstractive text summarization to generate fluent and informative texts, the factual inconsistency in the generated summaries remains an important yet challenging problem to be solved. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Chenhe Dong , Yuexiang Xie , Yaliang Li , Ying Shen

Existing factual consistency evaluation approaches for text summarization provide binary predictions and limited insights into the weakness of summarization systems. Therefore, we propose the task of fine-grained inconsistency detection,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Hou Pong Chan , Qi Zeng , Heng Ji

Cutting-edge abstractive summarisers generate fluent summaries, but the factuality of the generated text is not guaranteed. Early summary factuality evaluation metrics are usually based on n-gram overlap and embedding similarity, but are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Yuxuan Ye , Edwin Simpson , Raul Santos Rodriguez

Despite significant progress, state-of-the-art abstractive summarization methods are still prone to hallucinate content inconsistent with the source document. In this paper, we propose Constrained Abstractive Summarization (CAS), a general…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Yuning Mao , Xiang Ren , Heng Ji , Jiawei Han

The performance of text summarization has been greatly boosted by pre-trained language models. A main concern of existing methods is that most generated summaries are not factually inconsistent with their source documents. To alleviate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Zheheng Luo , Qianqian Xie , Sophia Ananiadou

Neural abstractive summarization models are able to generate summaries which have high overlap with human references. However, existing models are not optimized for factual correctness, a critical metric in real-world applications. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Yuhao Zhang , Derek Merck , Emily Bao Tsai , Christopher D. Manning , Curtis P. Langlotz

Recent work on abstractive summarization has made progress with neural encoder-decoder architectures. However, such models are often challenged due to their lack of explicit semantic modeling of the source document and its summary. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Hardy , Andreas Vlachos

Improving factual consistency of abstractive summarization has been a widely studied topic. However, most of the prior works on training factuality-aware models have ignored the negative effect it has on summary quality. We propose EFACTSUM…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Tanay Dixit , Fei Wang , Muhao Chen

We introduce a general framework for abstractive summarization with factual consistency and distinct modeling of the narrative flow in an output summary. Our work addresses current limitations of models for abstractive summarization that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Saadia Gabriel , Antoine Bosselut , Jeff Da , Ari Holtzman , Jan Buys , Kyle Lo , Asli Celikyilmaz , Yejin Choi

Hallucinations pose a significant challenge to the reliability of neural models for abstractive summarisation. While automatically generated summaries may be fluent, they often lack faithfulness to the original document. This issue becomes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Yifu Qiu , Yftah Ziser , Anna Korhonen , Edoardo M. Ponti , Shay B. Cohen

Neural models for abstractive summarization tend to generate output that is fluent and well-formed but lacks semantic faithfulness, or factuality, with respect to the input documents. In this paper, we analyze the tradeoff between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Markus Dreyer , Mengwen Liu , Feng Nan , Sandeep Atluri , Sujith Ravi

The propensity of abstractive summarization models to make factual errors has been studied extensively, including design of metrics to detect factual errors and annotation of errors in current systems' outputs. However, the ever-evolving…

Meaning Representation (AMR) is a graph-based semantic representation for sentences, composed of collections of concepts linked by semantic relations. AMR-based approaches have found success in a variety of applications, but a challenge to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Fei-Tzin Lee , Chris Kedzie , Nakul Verma , Kathleen McKeown

This research introduces ScoreRAG, an approach to enhance the quality of automated news generation. Despite advancements in Natural Language Processing and large language models, current news generation methods often struggle with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Pei-Yun Lin , Yen-lung Tsai

A key challenge for abstractive summarization is ensuring factual consistency of the generated summary with respect to the original document. For example, state-of-the-art models trained on existing datasets exhibit entity hallucination,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Feng Nan , Ramesh Nallapati , Zhiguo Wang , Cicero Nogueira dos Santos , Henghui Zhu , Dejiao Zhang , Kathleen McKeown , Bing Xiang

Generating meaningful assert statements is one of the key challenges in automated test case generation, which requires understanding the intended functionality of the tested code. Recently, deep learning-based models have shown promise in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Yuwei Zhang , Zhi Jin , Zejun Wang , Ying Xing , Ge Li

Reinforcement learning with evaluation metrics as rewards is widely used to enhance specific capabilities of language models. However, for tasks such as factually consistent summarisation, existing metrics remain underdeveloped, limiting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuxuan Ye , Raul Santos-Rodriguez , Edwin Simpson

We study generating abstractive summaries that are faithful and factually consistent with the given articles. A novel contrastive learning formulation is presented, which leverages both reference summaries, as positive training data, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Shuyang Cao , Lu Wang

Tremendous amounts of multimedia associated with speech information are driving an urgent need to develop efficient and effective automatic summarization methods. To this end, we have seen rapid progress in applying supervised deep neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Shi-Yan Weng , Tien-Hong Lo , Berlin Chen

We introduce a new method to improve existing multilingual sentence embeddings with Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR). Compared with the original textual input, AMR is a structured semantic representation that presents the core concepts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Deng Cai , Xin Li , Jackie Chun-Sing Ho , Lidong Bing , Wai Lam