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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

A key problem in text summarization is finding a salience function which determines what information in the source should be included in the summary. This paper describes the use of machine learning on a training corpus of documents and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Inderjeet Mani , Eric Bloedorn

Large language models (LLMs) excel in abstractive summarization tasks, delivering fluent and pertinent summaries. Recent advancements have extended their capabilities to handle long-input contexts, exceeding 100k tokens. However, in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Mathieu Ravaut , Aixin Sun , Nancy F. Chen , Shafiq Joty

Document summarization condenses a long document into a short version with salient information and accurate semantic descriptions. The main issue is how to make the output summary semantically consistent with the input document. To reach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Mingyang Song , Liping Jing

Given a document in a source language, cross-lingual summarization (CLS) aims at generating a concise summary in a different target language. Unlike monolingual summarization (MS), naturally occurring source-language documents paired with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Jiaan Wang , Fandong Meng , Yunlong Liang , Tingyi Zhang , Jiarong Xu , Zhixu Li , Jie Zhou

Cross-lingual summarization (CLS) is the task to produce a summary in one particular language for a source document in a different language. Existing methods simply divide this task into two steps: summarization and translation, leading to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Junnan Zhu , Qian Wang , Yining Wang , Yu Zhou , Jiajun Zhang , Shaonan Wang , Chengqing Zong

Meeting summarization is crucial in digital communication, but existing solutions struggle with salience identification to generate personalized, workable summaries, and context understanding to fully comprehend the meetings' content.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Frederic Kirstein , Terry Ruas , Robert Kratel , Bela Gipp

When summarizing a collection of views, arguments or opinions on some topic, it is often desirable not only to extract the most salient points, but also to quantify their prevalence. Work on multi-document summarization has traditionally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Roy Bar-Haim , Yoav Kantor , Lilach Eden , Roni Friedman , Dan Lahav , Noam Slonim

We present a method for generating comparative summaries that highlights similarities and contradictions in input documents. The key challenge in creating such summaries is the lack of large parallel training data required for training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Darsh J Shah , Lili Yu , Tao Lei , Regina Barzilay

Software documentation largely consists of short, natural language summaries of the subroutines in the software. These summaries help programmers quickly understand what a subroutine does without having to read the source code him or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Sakib Haque , Alexander LeClair , Lingfei Wu , Collin McMillan

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in modern search and answer systems to synthesize multiple, sometimes conflicting, texts into a single response, yet current pipelines offer weak incentives for sources to be accurate and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yanchen Jiang , Zhe Feng , Aranyak Mehta

The rapid increase in unstructured data across various fields has made multi-document comprehension and summarization a critical task. Traditional approaches often fail to capture relevant context, maintain logical consistency, and extract…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Aditi Godbole , Jabin Geevarghese George , Smita Shandilya

To generate summaries that include multiple aspects or topics for text documents, most approaches use clustering or topic modeling to group relevant sentences and then generate a summary for each group. These approaches struggle to optimize…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Xiaobo Guo , Jay Desai , Srinivasan H. Sengamedu

Neural machine translation models are used to automatically generate a document from given source code since this can be regarded as a machine translation task. Source code summarization is one of the components for automatic document…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Yusuke Shido , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Akihiro Yamamoto , Atsushi Miyamoto , Tadayuki Matsumura

Abstractive text summarization aims at compressing the information of a long source document into a rephrased, condensed summary. Despite advances in modeling techniques, abstractive summarization models still suffer from several key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Vidhisha Balachandran , Artidoro Pagnoni , Jay Yoon Lee , Dheeraj Rajagopal , Jaime Carbonell , Yulia Tsvetkov

The recent advance in neural network architecture and training algorithms have shown the effectiveness of representation learning. The neural network-based models generate better representation than the traditional ones. They have the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Kamal Al-Sabahi , Zhang Zuping , Mohammed Nadher

We propose a new MDS paradigm called reader-aware multi-document summarization (RA-MDS). Specifically, a set of reader comments associated with the news reports are also collected. The generated summaries from the reports for the event…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Piji Li , Lidong Bing , Wai Lam , Hang Li , Yi Liao

Huge amount of information is present in the World Wide Web and a large amount is being added to it frequently. A query-specific summary of multiple documents is very helpful to the user in this context. Currently, few systems have been…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-01-20 C Ravindranath Chowdary , P Sreenivasa Kumar

We present a cross-domain approach for automated measurement and context extraction based on pre-trained language models. We construct a multi-source, multi-domain corpus and train an end-to-end extraction pipeline. We then apply…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yueling Li , Sebastian Martschat , Simone Paolo Ponzetto

Developed so far, multi-document summarization has reached its bottleneck due to the lack of sufficient training data and diverse categories of documents. Text classification just makes up for these deficiencies. In this paper, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Ziqiang Cao , Wenjie Li , Sujian Li , Furu Wei