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The Query Focused Text Summarization (QFTS) task aims at building systems that generate the summary of the text document(s) based on the given query. A key challenge in addressing this task is the lack of large labeled data for training the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar , Enamul Hoque , Jimmy Xiangji Huang

Query-based text summarization is an important real world problem that requires to condense the prolix text data into a summary under the guidance of the query information provided by users. The topic has been studied for a long time and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Hang Yu , Jiawei Han

Writing a survey paper on one research topic usually needs to cover the salient content from numerous related papers, which can be modeled as a multi-document summarization (MDS) task. Existing MDS datasets usually focus on producing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Shuaiqi Liu , Jiannong Cao , Ruosong Yang , Zhiyuan Wen

Tables are a primary medium for conveying critical information in administrative domains, yet their complexity hinders utilization by Large Language Models (LLMs). This paper introduces the Theme-Explanation Structure-based Table…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-10 TaeYoon Kwack , Jisoo Kim , Ki Yong Jung , DongGeon Lee , Heesun Park

Query-focused summarization (QFS) aims to provide a summary of a document that satisfies information need of a given query and is useful in various IR applications, such as abstractive snippet generation. Current QFS approaches typically…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Zhichao Xu , Daniel Cohen

Automatic meeting summarization is becoming increasingly popular these days. The ability to automatically summarize meetings and to extract key information could greatly increase the efficiency of our work and life. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Andras Huebner , Wei Ji , Xiang Xiao

Multi-document summarization (MDS) is an effective tool for information aggregation that generates an informative and concise summary from a cluster of topic-related documents. Our survey, the first of its kind, systematically overviews the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Congbo Ma , Wei Emma Zhang , Mingyu Guo , Hu Wang , Quan Z. Sheng

Query-focused meeting summarization (QFMS) aims to generate summaries from meeting transcripts in response to a given query. Previous works typically concatenate the query with meeting transcripts and implicitly model the query relevance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Xingxian Liu , Bin Duan , Bo Xiao , Yajing Xu

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate strong performance in text summarization, yet their effectiveness drops significantly across languages with restricted training resources. This work addresses the challenge of query-focused…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Vuk Đuranović , Marko Robnik Šikonja

Large-scale datasets are widely used to perform summarization tasks, but they may not include queries alongside documents and summaries. In the search for suitable datasets for Query-Focused Summarization (QFS), we identify two research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yllias Chali , Deen Abdullah

The ubiquitous availability of computing devices and the widespread use of the internet have generated a large amount of data continuously. Therefore, the amount of available information on any given topic is far beyond humans' processing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Samira Ghodratnama

Conventional dialogue summarization methods directly generate summaries and do not consider user's specific interests. This poses challenges in cases where the users are more focused on particular topics or aspects. With the advancement of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Bin Wang , Zhengyuan Liu , Nancy F. Chen

We present a novel system providing summaries for Computer Science publications. Through a qualitative user study, we identified the most valuable scenarios for discovery, exploration and understanding of scientific documents. Based on…

We present HowSumm, a novel large-scale dataset for the task of query-focused multi-document summarization (qMDS), which targets the use-case of generating actionable instructions from a set of sources. This use-case is different from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Odellia Boni , Guy Feigenblat , Guy Lev , Michal Shmueli-Scheuer , Benjamin Sznajder , David Konopnicki

The new era of technology has brought us to the point where it is convenient for people to share their opinions over an abundance of platforms. These platforms have a provision for the users to express themselves in multiple forms of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Anubhav Jangra , Sourajit Mukherjee , Adam Jatowt , Sriparna Saha , Mohammad Hasanuzzaman

Enhancing the attribution in large language models (LLMs) is a crucial task. One feasible approach is to enable LLMs to cite external sources that support their generations. However, existing datasets and evaluation methods in this domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Haolin Deng , Chang Wang , Xin Li , Dezhang Yuan , Junlang Zhan , Tianhua Zhou , Jin Ma , Jun Gao , Ruifeng Xu

In the Query Focused Multi-Document Summarization (QF-MDS) task, a set of documents and a query are given where the goal is to generate a summary from these documents based on the given query. However, one major challenge for this task is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar , Enamul Hoque , Jimmy Xiangji Huang

Query-focused tabular summarization is an emerging task in table-to-text generation that synthesizes a summary response from tabular data based on user queries. Traditional transformer-based approaches face challenges due to token…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yasir Khan , Xinlei Wu , Sangpil Youm , Justin Ho , Aryaan Shaikh , Jairo Garciga , Rohan Sharma , Bonnie J. Dorr

Our work addresses the challenges of understanding tables. Existing methods often struggle with the unpredictable nature of table content, leading to a reliance on preprocessing and keyword matching. They also face limitations due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Thi-Nhung Nguyen , Hoang Ngo , Dinh Phung , Thuy-Trang Vu , Dat Quoc Nguyen

Automatic chart to text summarization is an effective tool for the visually impaired people along with providing precise insights of tabular data in natural language to the user. A large and well-structured dataset is always a key part for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Raian Rahman , Rizvi Hasan , Abdullah Al Farhad , Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar , Md. Hamjajul Ashmafee , Abu Raihan Mostofa Kamal