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While large language models (LLMs) can already achieve strong performance on standard generic summarization benchmarks, their performance on more complex summarization task settings is less studied. Therefore, we benchmark LLMs on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Yixin Liu , Alexander R. Fabbri , Jiawen Chen , Yilun Zhao , Simeng Han , Shafiq Joty , Pengfei Liu , Dragomir Radev , Chien-Sheng Wu , Arman Cohan

Recently, opinion summarization, which is the generation of a summary from multiple reviews, has been conducted in a self-supervised manner by considering a sampled review as a pseudo summary. However, non-text data such as image and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Jinbae Im , Moonki Kim , Hoyeop Lee , Hyunsouk Cho , Sehee Chung

Text summarizing is a critical Natural Language Processing (NLP) task with applications ranging from information retrieval to content generation. Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable promise in generating fluent abstractive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Colleen Gilhuly , Haleh Shahzad

While long-context large language models (LLMs) can technically summarize book-length documents (>100K tokens), the length and complexity of the documents have so far prohibited evaluations of input-dependent aspects like faithfulness. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Yekyung Kim , Yapei Chang , Marzena Karpinska , Aparna Garimella , Varun Manjunatha , Kyle Lo , Tanya Goyal , Mohit Iyyer

Automated evaluation is crucial for streamlining text summarization benchmarking and model development, given the costly and time-consuming nature of human evaluation. Traditional methods like ROUGE do not correlate well with human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Hwanjun Song , Hang Su , Igor Shalyminov , Jason Cai , Saab Mansour

Text summarization tasks commonly employ Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) to fit diverse standard datasets. While these PLMs excel in automatic evaluations, they frequently underperform in human evaluations, indicating a deviation between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Yang Han , Yiming Wang , Rui Wang , Lu Chen , Kai Yu

Product summarization aims to automatically generate product descriptions, which is of great commercial potential. Considering the customer preferences on different product aspects, it would benefit from generating aspect-oriented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Jiahui Liang , Junwei Bao , Yifan Wang , Youzheng Wu , Xiaodong He , Bowen Zhou

In recent years, product categorisation has been a common issue for E-commerce companies who have utilised machine learning to categorise their products automatically. In this study, we propose an ensemble approach, using a combination of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Kieron Drumm

Opinion summarization is the automatic creation of text reflecting subjective information expressed in multiple documents, such as user reviews of a product. The task is practically important and has attracted a lot of attention. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Arthur Bražinskas , Mirella Lapata , Ivan Titov

Accurate and complete product descriptions are crucial for e-commerce, yet seller-provided information often falls short. Customer reviews offer valuable details but are laborious to sift through manually. We present PRAISE: Product Review…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Adnan Qidwai , Srija Mukhopadhyay , Prerana Khatiwada , Dan Roth , Vivek Gupta

Finding relevant products given a user query is pivotal to an e-commerce platform, as it can drive shopping behavior and generate revenue. The challenge lies in accurately predicting the correlation between queries and products. Recently,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Ge Zhang , Rohan Deepak Ajwani , Yaochen Hu , Tony Zheng , Hongjian Gu , Wei Guo , Mark Coates , Yingxue Zhang

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

E-commerce platforms require structured product data in the form of attribute-value pairs to offer features such as faceted product search or attribute-based product comparison. However, vendors often provide unstructured product…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Alexander Brinkmann , Roee Shraga , Christian Bizer

This paper describes an investigation of the robustness of large language models (LLMs) for retrieval augmented generation (RAG)-based summarization tasks. While LLMs provide summarization capabilities, their performance in complex,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Shengjie Liu , Jing Wu , Jingyuan Bao , Wenyi Wang , Naira Hovakimyan , Christopher G Healey

Abstractive summarization models are typically pre-trained on large amounts of generic texts, then fine-tuned on tens or hundreds of thousands of annotated samples. However, in opinion summarization, large annotated datasets of reviews…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Arthur Bražinskas , Ramesh Nallapati , Mohit Bansal , Markus Dreyer

The e-commerce platform has evolved rapidly due to its widespread popularity and convenience. Developing an e-commerce shopping assistant for customers is crucial to aiding them in quickly finding desired products and recommending precisely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Shuo Zhang , Boci Peng , Xinping Zhao , Boren Hu , Yun Zhu , Yanjia Zeng , Xuming Hu

In recommender systems, large language models (LLMs) have gained popularity for generating descriptive summarization to improve recommendation robustness, along with Graph Convolution Networks. However, existing LLM-enhanced recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Moonsoo Park , Seulbeen Je , Donghyeon Park

Product recommendations inherently involve comparisons, yet traditional opinion summarization often fails to provide holistic comparative insights. We propose the novel task of generating Query-Focused Comparative Explainable Summaries…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Arnav Attri , Anuj Attri , Pushpak Bhattacharyya , Suman Banerjee , Amey Patil , Muthusamy Chelliah , Nikesh Garera

Product attribute value extraction is a pivotal component in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and the contemporary e-commerce industry. The provision of precise product attribute values is fundamental in ensuring high-quality…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Chenhao Fang , Xiaohan Li , Zezhong Fan , Jianpeng Xu , Kaushiki Nag , Evren Korpeoglu , Sushant Kumar , Kannan Achan

We present our approach to the PerAnsSumm Shared Task, which involves perspective span identification and perspective-aware summarization in community question-answering (CQA) threads. For span identification, we adopt ensemble learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Kristin Qi , Youxiang Zhu , Xiaohui Liang