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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

Effective summarisation evaluation metrics enable researchers and practitioners to compare different summarisation systems efficiently. Estimating the effectiveness of an automatic evaluation metric, termed meta-evaluation, is a critically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Xiang Dai , Sarvnaz Karimi , Biaoyan Fang

Medical multi-document summarization (MDS) is a complex task that requires effectively managing cross-document relationships. This paper investigates whether incorporating hierarchical structures in the inputs of MDS can improve a model's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Yi-Li Hsu , Katelyn X. Mei , Lucy Lu Wang

Document Grounded Conversations is a task to generate dialogue responses when chatting about the content of a given document. Obviously, document knowledge plays a critical role in Document Grounded Conversations, while existing dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Zekang Li , Cheng Niu , Fandong Meng , Yang Feng , Qian Li , Jie Zhou

Recently, Transformer-based encoder-decoder models have demonstrated strong performance in multilingual speech recognition. However, the decoder's autoregressive nature and large size introduce significant bottlenecks during inference.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-28 Yunkyu Lim , Jihwan Park , Hyung Yong Kim , Hanbin Lee , Byeong-Yeol Kim

Meeting summarization has become a critical task considering the increase in online interactions. While new techniques are introduced regularly, their evaluation uses metrics not designed to capture meeting-specific errors, undermining…

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

Abstractive summarization has been studied using neural sequence transduction methods with datasets of large, paired document-summary examples. However, such datasets are rare and the models trained from them do not generalize to other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Eric Chu , Peter J. Liu

While neural sequence learning methods have made significant progress in single-document summarization (SDS), they produce unsatisfactory results on multi-document summarization (MDS). We observe two major challenges when adapting SDS…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Yuning Mao , Yanru Qu , Yiqing Xie , Xiang Ren , Jiawei Han

In the rapidly evolving digital era, there is an increasing demand for concise information as individuals seek to distil key insights from various sources. Recent attention from researchers on Multi-document Summarisation (MDS) has resulted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Kushan Hewapathirana , Nisansa de Silva , C. D. Athuraliya

Language model (LM) pre-training has resulted in impressive performance and sample efficiency on a variety of language understanding tasks. However, it remains unclear how to best use pre-trained LMs for generation tasks such as abstractive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Urvashi Khandelwal , Kevin Clark , Dan Jurafsky , Lukasz Kaiser

Document Summarization is the procedure of generating a meaningful and concise summary of a given document with the inclusion of relevant and topic-important points. There are two approaches: one is picking up the most relevant statements…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Siddhant Porwal , Laxmi Bewoor , Vivek Deshpande

Summarization is an important application of large language models (LLMs). Most previous evaluation of summarization models has focused on their content selection, faithfulness, grammaticality and coherence. However, it is well known that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Julius Steen , Katja Markert

In Natural Language Processing, multi-document summarization (MDS) poses many challenges to researchers above those posed by single-document summarization (SDS). These challenges include the increased search space and greater potential for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 David Adams , Gandharv Suri , Yllias Chali

Product reviews summarization is a type of Multi-Document Summarization (MDS) task in which the summarized document sets are often far larger than in traditional MDS (up to tens of thousands of reviews). We highlight this difference and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Ori Shapira , Ran Levy

Generating a readable summary that describes the functionality of a program is known as source code summarization. In this task, learning code representation by modeling the pairwise relationship between code tokens to capture their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Wasi Uddin Ahmad , Saikat Chakraborty , Baishakhi Ray , Kai-Wei Chang

Multi-document summarization (MDS) aims to generate a summary for a number of related documents. We propose HGSUM, an MDS model that extends an encoder-decoder architecture, to incorporate a heterogeneous graph to represent different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Miao Li , Jianzhong Qi , Jey Han Lau

Neural network-based models augmented with unsupervised pre-trained knowledge have achieved impressive performance on text summarization. However, most existing evaluation methods are limited to an in-domain setting, where summarizers are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Yiran Chen , Pengfei Liu , Ming Zhong , Zi-Yi Dou , Danqing Wang , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

Creating abstractive summaries from meeting transcripts has proven to be challenging due to the limited amount of labeled data available for training neural network models. Moreover, Transformer-based architectures have proven to beat…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Nima Sadri , Bohan Zhang , Bihan Liu

Multi-document summarization entails producing concise synopses of collections of inputs. For some applications, the synopsis should accurately synthesize inputs with respect to a key aspect, e.g., a synopsis of film reviews written about a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Jay DeYoung , Stephanie C. Martinez , Iain J. Marshall , Byron C. Wallace

Transformer networks have seen great success in natural language processing and machine vision, where task objectives such as next word prediction and image classification benefit from nuanced context sensitivity across high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Yuxuan Li , James L. McClelland