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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

Long document summarization remains a significant challenge for current large language models (LLMs), as existing approaches commonly struggle with information loss, factual inconsistencies, and coherence issues when processing excessively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Weixuan Wang , Minghao Wu , Barry Haddow , Alexandra Birch

With the rapid advancement of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), their evaluation has become increasingly comprehensive. However, understanding long multimodal content, as a foundational ability for real-world applications, remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Weiyun Wang , Shuibo Zhang , Yiming Ren , Yuchen Duan , Tiantong Li , Shuo Liu , Mengkang Hu , Zhe Chen , Kaipeng Zhang , Lewei Lu , Xizhou Zhu , Ping Luo , Yu Qiao , Jifeng Dai , Wenqi Shao , Wenhai Wang

We introduce Lifelong ICL, a problem setting that challenges long-context language models (LMs) to learn a sequence of language tasks through in-context learning (ICL). We further introduce Task Haystack, an evaluation suite dedicated to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Xiaoyue Xu , Qinyuan Ye , Xiang Ren

Text summarization is crucial for mitigating information overload across domains like journalism, medicine, and business. This research evaluates summarization performance across 17 large language models (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Anantharaman Janakiraman , Behnaz Ghoraani

The majority of available text summarization datasets include short-form source documents that lack long-range causal and temporal dependencies, and often contain strong layout and stylistic biases. While relevant, such datasets will offer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Wojciech Kryściński , Nazneen Rajani , Divyansh Agarwal , Caiming Xiong , Dragomir Radev

Meeting summarization has become a critical task since digital encounters have become a common practice. Large language models (LLMs) show great potential in summarization, offering enhanced coherence and context understanding compared to…

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

Text summarization helps readers capture salient information from documents, news, interviews, and meetings. However, most state-of-the-art pretrained language models (LM) are unable to efficiently process long text for many summarization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Yusen Zhang , Ansong Ni , Ziming Mao , Chen Henry Wu , Chenguang Zhu , Budhaditya Deb , Ahmed H. Awadallah , Dragomir Radev , Rui Zhang

Modern long-context large language models (LLMs) perform well on synthetic "needle-in-a-haystack" (NIAH) benchmarks, but such tests overlook how noisy contexts arise from biased retrieval and agentic workflows. We argue that haystack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Mufei Li , Dongqi Fu , Limei Wang , Si Zhang , Hanqing Zeng , Kaan Sancak , Ruizhong Qiu , Haoyu Wang , Xiaoxin He , Xavier Bresson , Yinglong Xia , Chonglin Sun , Pan Li

Text summarization is a fundamental task in natural language processing (NLP), and the information explosion has made long-document processing increasingly demanding, making summarization essential. Existing research mainly focuses on model…

Preventing jailbreaking and model hijacking of Large Language Models (LLMs) is an important yet challenging task. When interacting with a chatbot, malicious users can input specially crafted prompts that cause the LLM to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Giovanni Cherubin , Andrew Paverd

Multi-hop question answering is a challenging task with distinct industrial relevance, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) methods based on large language models (LLMs) have become a popular approach to tackle this task. Owing to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Zhouyu Jiang , Mengshu Sun , Lei Liang , Zhiqiang Zhang

Automatic document summarization aims to produce a concise summary covering the input document's salient information. Within a report document, the salient information can be scattered in the textual and non-textual content. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Shuaiqi Liu , Jiannong Cao , Ruosong Yang , Zhiyuan Wen

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a crucial technique for enhancing the accuracy of Large Language Models (LLMs) by incorporating external information. With the advent of LLMs that support increasingly longer context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Quinn Leng , Jacob Portes , Sam Havens , Matei Zaharia , Michael Carbin

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been widely applied in summarization due to their speedy and high-quality text generation. Summarization for sensemaking involves information compression and insight extraction. Human guidance in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Xuxin Tang , Eric Krokos , Can Liu , Kylie Davidson , Kirsten Whitley , Naren Ramakrishnan , Chris North

Automatically summarizing large text collections is a valuable tool for document research, with applications in journalism, academic research, legal work, and many other fields. In this work, we contrast two classes of systems for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Adithya Pratapa , Teruko Mitamura

We report the results of DialogSum Challenge, the shared task on summarizing real-life scenario dialogues at INLG 2022. Four teams participate in this shared task and three submit their system reports, exploring different methods to improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Yulong Chen , Naihao Deng , Yang Liu , Yue Zhang

Text summarization is a fundamental task in natural language processing that aims to condense large amounts of textual information into concise and coherent summaries. With the exponential growth of content and the need to extract key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Öykü Berfin Mercan , Sena Nur Cavsak , Aysu Deliahmetoglu , Senem Tanberk

Automated lay summarisation (LS) aims to simplify complex technical documents into a more accessible format to non-experts. Existing approaches using pre-trained language models, possibly augmented with external background knowledge, tend…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Zheheng Luo , Qianqian Xie , Sophia Ananiadou

Automatic text summarization has been widely studied as an important task in natural language processing. Traditionally, various feature engineering and machine learning based systems have been proposed for extractive as well as abstractive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Sayar Ghosh Roy , Nikhil Pinnaparaju , Risubh Jain , Manish Gupta , Vasudeva Varma