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We present the Quantized Transformer (QT), an unsupervised system for extractive opinion summarization. QT is inspired by Vector-Quantized Variational Autoencoders, which we repurpose for popularity-driven summarization. It uses a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Stefanos Angelidis , Reinald Kim Amplayo , Yoshihiko Suhara , Xiaolan Wang , Mirella Lapata

The task of rationalization aims to extract pieces of input text as rationales to justify neural network predictions on text classification tasks. By definition, rationales represent key text pieces used for prediction and thus should have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Yongfeng Huang , Yujun Chen , Yulun Du , Zhilin Yang

Automatic summarization is the process of shortening a set of textual data computationally, to create a subset (a summary) that represents the most important pieces of information in the original text. Existing summarization methods can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Meng Cao

Commonly adopted metrics for extractive summarization focus on lexical overlap at the token level. In this paper, we present a facet-aware evaluation setup for better assessment of the information coverage in extracted summaries.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Yuning Mao , Liyuan Liu , Qi Zhu , Xiang Ren , Jiawei Han

Prediction without justification has limited applicability. As a remedy, we learn to extract pieces of input text as justifications -- rationales -- that are tailored to be short and coherent, yet sufficient for making the same prediction.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-04 Tao Lei , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

We present RepRank, an unsupervised graph-based ranking model for extractive multi-document summarization in which the similarity between words, sentences, and word-to-sentence can be estimated by the distances between their vector…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Zongyi Li , Xiaoqing Zheng , Jun He

Selective rationalization has become a common mechanism to ensure that predictive models reveal how they use any available features. The selection may be soft or hard, and identifies a subset of input features relevant for prediction. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Mo Yu , Shiyu Chang , Yang Zhang , Tommi S. Jaakkola

We propose to augment rating based recommender systems by providing the user with additional information which might help him in his choice or in the understanding of the recommendation. We consider here as a new task, the generation of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-12-18 Mickaël Poussevin , Vincent Guigue , Patrick Gallinari

The Web is a major resource of both factual and subjective information. While there are significant efforts to organize factual information into knowledge bases, there is much less work on organizing opinions, which are abundant in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Nofar Carmeli , Xiaolan Wang , Yoshihiko Suhara , Stefanos Angelidis , Yuliang Li , Jinfeng Li , Wang-Chiew Tan

Summarization is a way to represent same information in concise way with equal sense. This can be categorized in two type Abstractive and Extractive type. Our work is focused around Extractive summarization. A generic approach to extractive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Chandra Shekhar Yadav , Aditi Sharan

The IMPRESSIONS section of a radiology report about an imaging study is a summary of the radiologist's reasoning and conclusions, and it also aids the referring physician in confirming or excluding certain diagnoses. A cascade of tasks are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Sanjeev Kumar Karn , Ning Liu , Hinrich Schuetze , Oladimeji Farri

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

Global partisan hostility and polarization has increased, and this polarization is heightened around presidential elections. Models capable of generating accurate summaries of diverse perspectives can help reduce such polarization by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Nicholas Deas , Kathleen McKeown

Sentence extraction based summarization methods has some limitations as it doesn't go into the semantics of the document. Also, it lacks the capability of sentence generation which is intuitive to humans. Here we present a novel method to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-06-06 Divyanshu Bhartiya , Ashudeep Singh

There are two main approaches to recent extractive summarization: the sentence-level framework, which selects sentences to include in a summary individually, and the summary-level framework, which generates multiple candidate summaries and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Taewan Kwon , Sangyong Lee

Opinion summarization focuses on generating summaries that reflect popular subjective information expressed in multiple online reviews. While generated summaries offer general and concise information about a particular hotel or product, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Hayate Iso , Xiaolan Wang , Stefanos Angelidis , Yoshihiko Suhara

Selective rationalization aims to produce decisions along with rationales (e.g., text highlights or word alignments between two sentences). Commonly, rationales are modeled as stochastic binary masks, requiring sampling-based gradient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Nuno Miguel Guerreiro , André F. T. Martins

Opinion summarization is the task of creating summaries capturing popular opinions from user reviews. In this paper, we introduce Geodesic Summarizer (GeoSumm), a novel system to perform unsupervised extractive opinion summarization.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury , Nicholas Monath , Avinava Dubey , Amr Ahmed , Snigdha Chaturvedi

Opinion summarization plays a key role in deriving meaningful insights from large-scale online reviews. To make the process more explainable and grounded, we propose a domain-agnostic modular approach guided by review aspects (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Miao Li , Jey Han Lau , Eduard Hovy , Mirella Lapata

Lay summaries for scientific documents typically include explanations to help readers grasp sophisticated concepts or arguments. However, current automatic summarization methods do not explicitly model explanations, which makes it difficult…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Dongqi Liu , Xi Yu , Vera Demberg , Mirella Lapata