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Multi-document summarization (MDS) is the task of reflecting key points from any set of documents into a concise text paragraph. In the past, it has been used to aggregate news, tweets, product reviews, etc. from various sources. Owing to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Alvin Dey , Tanya Chowdhury , Yash Kumar Atri , Tanmoy Chakraborty

A crucial difference between single- and multi-document summarization is how salient content manifests itself in the document(s). While such content may appear at the beginning of a single document, essential information is frequently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Logan Lebanoff , Bingqing Wang , Zhe Feng , Fei Liu

NLP models that compare or consolidate information across multiple documents often struggle when challenged with recognizing substantial information redundancies across the texts. For example, in multi-document summarization it is crucial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Daniela Brook Weiss , Paul Roit , Ori Ernst , Ido Dagan

Multi-document summarization (MDS) assumes a set of topic-related documents are provided as input. In practice, this document set is not always available; it would need to be retrieved given an information need, i.e. a question or topic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 John Giorgi , Luca Soldaini , Bo Wang , Gary Bader , Kyle Lo , Lucy Lu Wang , Arman Cohan

Modern multi-document summarization (MDS) methods are based on transformer architectures. They generate state of the art summaries, but lack explainability. We focus on graph-based transformer models for MDS as they gained recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-08 M. Lautaro Hickmann , Fabian Wurzberger , Megi Hoxhalli , Arne Lochner , Jessica Töllich , Ansgar Scherp

Abstractive multi-document summarization (MDS) is the task of automatically summarizing information in multiple documents, from news articles to conversations with multiple speakers. The training approaches for current MDS models can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Alexandra DeLucia , Mark Dredze

We aim to renew interest in a particular multi-document summarization (MDS) task which we call AgreeSum: agreement-oriented multi-document summarization. Given a cluster of articles, the goal is to provide abstractive summaries that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Richard Yuanzhe Pang , Adam D. Lelkes , Vinh Q. Tran , Cong Yu

Multi-document summarization (MDS) has made significant progress in recent years, in part facilitated by the availability of new, dedicated datasets and capacious language models. However, a standing limitation of these models is that they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Jacob Parnell , Inigo Jauregi Unanue , Massimo Piccardi

We investigate pre-training techniques for abstractive multi-document summarization (MDS), which is much less studied than summarizing single documents. Though recent work has demonstrated the effectiveness of highlighting information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Joseph J. Peper , Wenzhao Qiu , Lu Wang

Multi-document summarization is the process of automatically generating a concise summary of multiple documents related to the same topic. This summary can help users quickly understand the key information from a large collection of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Charles Rajan , Nishit Asnani , Shreya Singh

We investigate the problem of reader-aware multi-document summarization (RA-MDS) and introduce a new dataset for this problem. To tackle RA-MDS, we extend a variational auto-encodes (VAEs) based MDS framework by jointly considering news…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Piji Li , Lidong Bing , Wai Lam

Current research in automatic single document summarization is dominated by two effective, yet naive approaches: summarization by sentence extraction, and headline generation via bag-of-words models. While successful in some tasks, neither…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2009-07-07 Hal Daumé , Daniel Marcu

Till now, neural abstractive summarization methods have achieved great success for single document summarization (SDS). However, due to the lack of large scale multi-document summaries, such methods can be hardly applied to multi-document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Jianmin Zhang , Jiwei Tan , Xiaojun Wan

Multi-document summarization (MDS) generates a summary from a document set. Each document in a set describes topic-relevant concepts, while per document also has its unique contents. However, the document specificity receives little…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Congbo Ma , Wei Emma Zhang , Hu Wang , Haojie Zhuang , Mingyu Guo

A key challenge in Multi-Document Summarization (MDS) is effectively integrating information from multiple sources while maintaining coherence and topical relevance. While Large Language Models have shown impressive results in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Chuyuan Li , Austin Xu , Shafiq Joty , Giuseppe Carenini

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated superior performance in listwise passage reranking task. However, directly applying them to rank long-form documents introduces both effectiveness and efficiency issues due to the substantially…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Jincheng Feng , Wenhan Liu , Zhicheng Dou

The multi-document summarization task requires the designed summarizer to generate a short text that covers the important information of original documents and satisfies content diversity. This paper proposes a multi-document summarization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Bing Ma

Document alignment aims to identify pairs of documents in two distinct languages that are of comparable content or translations of each other. Such aligned data can be used for a variety of NLP tasks from training cross-lingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Ahmed El-Kishky , Francisco Guzmán

There has been substantial progress in summarization research enabled by the availability of novel, often large-scale, datasets and recent advances on neural network-based approaches. However, manual evaluation of the system generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Hardy , Shashi Narayan , Andreas Vlachos

One key challenge in multi-document summarization is to capture the relations among input documents that distinguish between single document summarization (SDS) and multi-document summarization (MDS). Few existing MDS works address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Congbo Ma , Wei Emma Zhang , Pitawelayalage Dasun Dileepa Pitawela , Yutong Qu , Haojie Zhuang , Hu Wang