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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

Sequence-to-sequence models provide a viable new approach to generative summarization, allowing models that are no longer limited to simply selecting and recombining sentences from the original text. However, these models have three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Tianyang Xu , Chunyun Zhang

Traditional approaches to extractive summarization rely heavily on human-engineered features. In this work we propose a data-driven approach based on neural networks and continuous sentence features. We develop a general framework for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Jianpeng Cheng , Mirella Lapata

Seq2seq learning has produced promising results on summarization. However, in many cases, system summaries still struggle to keep the meaning of the original intact. They may miss out important words or relations that play critical roles in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Kaiqiang Song , Lin Zhao , Fei Liu

Abstractive text summarization is integral to the Big Data era, which demands advanced methods to turn voluminous and often long text data into concise but coherent and informative summaries for efficient human consumption. Despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Jianbin Shen , Christy Jie Liang , Junyu Xuan

The advancements in deep learning, particularly the introduction of transformers, have been pivotal in enhancing various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. These include text-to-text applications such as machine translation, text…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Gospel Ozioma Nnadi , Flavio Bertini

We present a new neural model for text summarization that first extracts sentences from a document and then compresses them. The proposed model offers a balance that sidesteps the difficulties in abstractive methods while generating more…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Afonso Mendes , Shashi Narayan , Sebastião Miranda , Zita Marinho , André F. T. Martins , Shay B. Cohen

Text Summarization is recognised as one of the NLP downstream tasks and it has been extensively investigated in recent years. It can assist people with perceiving the information rapidly from the Internet, including news articles, social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Guan Wang , Weihua Li , Edmund Lai , Jianhua Jiang

We introduce extreme summarization, a new single-document summarization task which does not favor extractive strategies and calls for an abstractive modeling approach. The idea is to create a short, one-sentence news summary answering the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Shashi Narayan , Shay B. Cohen , Mirella Lapata

A quality abstractive summary should not only copy salient source texts as summaries but should also tend to generate new conceptual words to express concrete details. Inspired by the popular pointer generator sequence-to-sequence model,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Wang Wenbo , Gao Yang , Huang Heyan , Zhou Yuxiang

Speech-to-text (S2T) summarization is a time-saving technique for filtering and keeping up with the broadcast news uploaded online on a daily basis. The rise of large language models from deep learning with impressive text generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Raul Monteiro , Diogo Pernes

Abstractive summarization systems aim to produce more coherent and concise summaries than their extractive counterparts. Popular neural models have achieved impressive results for single-document summarization, yet their outputs are often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Eva Sharma , Luyang Huang , Zhe Hu , Lu Wang

Abstractive text summarization is a challenging task, and one need to design a mechanism to effectively extract salient information from the source text and then generate a summary. A parsing process of the source text contains critical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Haiyang Xu , Yun Wang , Kun Han , Baochang Ma , Junwen Chen , Xiangang Li

Conventional solutions to automatic related work summarization rely heavily on human-engineered features. In this paper, we develop a neural data-driven summarizer by leveraging the seq2seq paradigm, in which a joint context-driven…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Yongzhen Wang , Xiaozhong Liu , Zheng Gao

In recent years, text summarization methods have attracted much attention again thanks to the researches on neural network models. Most of the current text summarization methods based on neural network models are supervised methods which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Dehao Tao , Yingzhu Xiong , Zhongliang Yang , Yongfeng Huang

Sentence simplification is the task of rewriting texts so they are easier to understand. Recent research has applied sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) models to this task, focusing largely on training-time improvements via reinforcement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Reno Kriz , João Sedoc , Marianna Apidianaki , Carolina Zheng , Gaurav Kumar , Eleni Miltsakaki , Chris Callison-Burch

Text summarization and text simplification are two major ways to simplify the text for poor readers, including children, non-native speakers, and the functionally illiterate. Text summarization is to produce a brief summary of the main…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Shuming Ma , Xu Sun

The recent years have seen remarkable success in the use of deep neural networks on text summarization. However, there is no clear understanding of \textit{why} they perform so well, or \textit{how} they might be improved. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Ming Zhong , Pengfei Liu , Danqing Wang , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

Summarization has usually relied on gold standard summaries to train extractive or abstractive models. Social media brings a hurdle to summarization techniques since it requires addressing a multi-document multi-author approach. We address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Ignacio Tampe Palma , Marcelo Mendoza , Evangelos Milios

We simplify sentences with an attentive neural network sequence to sequence model, dubbed S4. The model includes a novel word-copy mechanism and loss function to exploit linguistic similarities between the original and simplified sentences.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Alexander Mathews , Lexing Xie , Xuming He