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Unsupervised document summarization has re-acquired lots of attention in recent years thanks to its simplicity and data independence. In this paper, we propose a graph-based unsupervised approach for extractive document summarization.…

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Automatic text summarization has achieved high performance in high-resourced languages like English, but comparatively less attention has been given to summarization in less-resourced languages. This work compares a variety of different…

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Recent neural network approaches to summarization are largely either selection-based extraction or generation-based abstraction. In this work, we present a neural model for single-document summarization based on joint extraction and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Jiacheng Xu , Greg Durrett

Despite the rapid growth of context length of large language models (LLMs) , LLMs still perform poorly in long document summarization. An important reason for this is that relevant information about an event is scattered throughout long…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Taiji Li , Hao Chen , Fei Yu , Yin Zhang

In Automatic Text Summarization, preprocessing is an important phase to reduce the space of textual representation. Classically, stemming and lemmatization have been widely used for normalizing words. However, even using normalization on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-09-17 Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno

Automatic sentence summarization produces a shorter version of a sentence, while preserving its most important information. A good summary is characterized by language fluency and high information overlap with the source sentence. We model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Raphael Schumann , Lili Mou , Yao Lu , Olga Vechtomova , Katja Markert

In the field of multi-document summarization (MDS), transformer-based models have demonstrated remarkable success, yet they suffer an input length limitation. Current methods apply truncation after the retrieval process to fit the context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Shiyin Tan , Jaeeon Park , Dongyuan Li , Renhe Jiang , Manabu Okumura

A notable challenge in Multi-Document Summarization (MDS) is the extremely-long length of the input. In this paper, we present an extract-then-abstract Transformer framework to overcome the problem. Specifically, we leverage pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Yun-Zhu Song , Yi-Syuan Chen , Hong-Han Shuai

Automatic summarization methods are efficient but can suffer from low quality. In comparison, manual summarization is expensive but produces higher quality. Can humans and AI collaborate to improve summarization performance? In similar text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Vivian Lai , Alison Smith-Renner , Ke Zhang , Ruijia Cheng , Wenjuan Zhang , Joel Tetreault , Alejandro Jaimes

Since the amount of information on the internet is growing rapidly, it is not easy for a user to find relevant information for his/her query. To tackle this issue, much attention has been paid to Automatic Document Summarization. The key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Kamal Al-Sabahi , Zhang Zuping , Yang Kang

Text summarization and sentiment classification both aim to capture the main ideas of the text but at different levels. Text summarization is to describe the text within a few sentences, while sentiment classification can be regarded as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Shuming Ma , Xu Sun , Junyang Lin , Xuancheng Ren

Unsupervised extractive document summarization aims to select important sentences from a document without using labeled summaries during training. Existing methods are mostly graph-based with sentences as nodes and edge weights measured by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Shusheng Xu , Xingxing Zhang , Yi Wu , Furu Wei , Ming Zhou

Deep neural networks are data hungry models and thus face difficulties when attempting to train on small text datasets. Transfer learning is a potential solution but their effectiveness in the text domain is not as explored as in areas such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Yaser Keneshloo , Naren Ramakrishnan , Chandan K. Reddy

Automatic text summarization tools have a great impact on many fields, such as medicine, law, and scientific research in general. As information overload increases, automatic summaries allow handling the growing volume of documents, usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Augusto Villa-Monte , Laura Lanzarini , Aurelio F. Bariviera , José A. Olivas

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

As the number of documents on the web is growing exponentially, multi-document summarization is becoming more and more important since it can provide the main ideas in a document set in short time. In this paper, we present an unsupervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Kaustubh Mani , Ishan Verma , Hardik Meisheri , Lipika Dey

Cross-lingual text summarization aims at generating a document summary in one language given input in another language. It is a practically important but under-explored task, primarily due to the dearth of available data. Existing methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Zi-Yi Dou , Sachin Kumar , Yulia Tsvetkov

The substantial growth of textual content in diverse domains and platforms has led to a considerable need for Automatic Text Summarization (ATS) techniques that aid in the process of text analysis. The effectiveness of text summarization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Nevidu Jayatilleke , Ruvan Weerasinghe , Nipuna Senanayake

Text segmentation aims to divide text into contiguous, semantically coherent segments, while segment labeling deals with producing labels for each segment. Past work has shown success in tackling segmentation and labeling for documents and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Hakan Inan , Rashi Rungta , Yashar Mehdad

In this era of information technology, abundant information is available on the internet in the form of web pages and documents on any given topic. Finding the most relevant and informative content out of these huge number of documents,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Uswa Ihsan , Humaira Ashraf , NZ Jhanjhi