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Generating synthetic datasets that accurately reflect real-world observational data is critical for evaluating causal estimators, but it remains a challenging task. Existing generative methods offer a solution by producing synthetic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Pracheta Amaranath , Vinitra Muralikrishnan , Amit Sharma , David Jensen

Grounded text generation systems often generate text that contains factual inconsistencies, hindering their real-world applicability. Automatic factual consistency evaluation may help alleviate this limitation by accelerating evaluation…

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

Factuality is important to dialogue summarization. Factual error correction (FEC) of model-generated summaries is one way to improve factuality. Current FEC evaluation that relies on factuality metrics is not reliable and detailed enough.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Mingqi Gao , Xiaojun Wan , Jia Su , Zhefeng Wang , Baoxing Huai

Evaluating the factual consistency of automatically generated summaries is essential for the progress and adoption of reliable summarization systems. Despite recent advances, existing factuality evaluation models are not robust, being…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Shangbin Feng , Vidhisha Balachandran , Yuyang Bai , Yulia Tsvetkov

Text summarization can be classified into two approaches: extraction and abstraction. This paper focuses on extraction approach. The goal of text summarization based on extraction approach is sentence selection. One of the methods to obtain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-06-26 Ladda Suanmali , Naomie Salim , Mohammed Salem Binwahlan

Evaluating the factual consistency of abstractive text summarization remains a significant challenge, particularly for long documents, where conventional metrics struggle with input length limitations and long-range dependencies. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Zain Muhammad Mujahid , Dustin Wright , Isabelle Augenstein

Abstractive summarization systems leveraging pre-training language models have achieved superior results on benchmark datasets. However, such models have been shown to be more prone to hallucinate facts that are unfaithful to the input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Haopeng Zhang , Semih Yavuz , Wojciech Kryscinski , Kazuma Hashimoto , Yingbo Zhou

Neural abstractive summarization models are prone to generate summaries which are factually inconsistent with their source documents. Previous work has introduced the task of recognizing such factual inconsistency as a downstream…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Prasetya Ajie Utama , Joshua Bambrick , Nafise Sadat Moosavi , Iryna Gurevych

Abstractive summarization has enjoyed renewed interest in recent years, thanks to pre-trained language models and the availability of large-scale datasets. Despite promising results, current models still suffer from generating factually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Roee Aharoni , Shashi Narayan , Joshua Maynez , Jonathan Herzig , Elizabeth Clark , Mirella Lapata

Entity abstract summarization aims to generate a coherent description of a given entity based on a set of relevant Internet documents. Pretrained language models (PLMs) have achieved significant success in this task, but they may suffer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Fangwei Zhu , Peiyi Wang , Zhifang Sui

Video summarization is a task of shortening a video by choosing a subset of frames while preserving its essential moments. Despite the innate subjectivity of the task, previous works have deterministically regressed to an averaged frame…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Kwanseok Kim , Jaehoon Hahm , Sumin Kim , Jinhwan Sul , Byunghak Kim , Joonseok Lee

Scoring the factuality of a generated summary involves measuring the degree to which a target text contains factual information using the input document as support. Given the similarities in the problem formulation, previous work has shown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-01 John Glover , Federico Fancellu , Vasudevan Jagannathan , Matthew R. Gormley , Thomas Schaaf

We consider the problem of automatically generating a narrative biomedical evidence summary from multiple trial reports. We evaluate modern neural models for abstractive summarization of relevant article abstracts from systematic reviews…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Byron C. Wallace , Sayantan Saha , Frank Soboczenski , Iain J. Marshall

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

Sequence-level knowledge distillation reduces the size of Seq2Seq models for more efficient abstractive summarization. However, it often leads to a loss of abstractiveness in summarization. In this paper, we propose a novel approach named…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Hwanjun Song , Igor Shalyminov , Hang Su , Siffi Singh , Kaisheng Yao , Saab Mansour

Extractive summarization aims to form a summary by directly extracting sentences from the source document. Existing works mostly formulate it as a sequence labeling problem by making individual sentence label predictions. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Haopeng Zhang , Xiao Liu , Jiawei Zhang

Despite some recent advances, automatic text summarization remains unreliable, elusive, and of limited practical use in applications. Two main problems with current summarization methods are well known: evaluation and factual consistency.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Jay Ahn , Foaad Khosmood

Summaries of medical text shall be faithful by being consistent and factual with source inputs, which is an important but understudied topic for safety and efficiency in healthcare. In this paper, we investigate and improve faithfulness in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Nan Zhang , Yusen Zhang , Wu Guo , Prasenjit Mitra , Rui Zhang

Factual consistency is an important quality in dialogue summarization. Large language model (LLM)-based automatic text summarization models generate more factually consistent summaries compared to those by smaller pretrained language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Rongxin Zhu , Jey Han Lau , Jianzhong Qi