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Abstractive summarization is an ideal form of summarization since it can synthesize information from multiple documents to create concise informative summaries. In this work, we aim at developing an abstractive summarizer. First, our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Siddhartha Banerjee , Prasenjit Mitra , Kazunari Sugiyama

Text summarization aims to generate a headline or a short summary consisting of the major information of the source text. Recent studies employ the sequence-to-sequence framework to encode the input with a neural network and generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Haiyang Xu , Yahao He , Kun Han , Junwen Chen , Xiangang Li

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the capacity to improve summary quality by mirroring a human-like iterative process of critique and refinement starting from the initial draft. Two strategies are designed to perform this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Shichao Sun , Ruifeng Yuan , Ziqiang Cao , Wenjie Li , Pengfei Liu

A vast amount of textual data is added to the internet daily, making utilization and interpretation of such data difficult and cumbersome. As a result, automatic text summarization is crucial for extracting relevant information, saving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Naman Chhibbar , Jugal Kalita

We present a novel divide-and-conquer method for the neural summarization of long documents. Our method exploits the discourse structure of the document and uses sentence similarity to split the problem into an ensemble of smaller…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Alexios Gidiotis , Grigorios Tsoumakas

A system that could reliably identify and sum up the most important points of a conversation would be valuable in a wide variety of real-world contexts, from business meetings to medical consultations to customer service calls. Recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Virgile Rennard , Guokan Shang , Julie Hunter , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Legal document summarization represents a significant advancement towards improving judicial efficiency through the automation of key information detection. Our approach leverages state-of-the-art natural language processing techniques to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Yongjie Li , Ruilin Nong , Jianan Liu , Lucas Evans

Retrieval-augmented language models can better adapt to changes in world state and incorporate long-tail knowledge. However, most existing methods retrieve only short contiguous chunks from a retrieval corpus, limiting holistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Parth Sarthi , Salman Abdullah , Aditi Tuli , Shubh Khanna , Anna Goldie , Christopher D. Manning

Several methods have been proposed for classifying long textual documents using Transformers. However, there is a lack of consensus on a benchmark to enable a fair comparison among different approaches. In this paper, we provide a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Hyunji Hayley Park , Yogarshi Vyas , Kashif Shah

Extractive summaries are usually presented as lists of sentences with no expected cohesion between them and with plenty of redundant information if not accounted for. In this paper, we investigate the trade-offs incurred when aiming to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Ronald Cardenas , Matthias Galle , Shay B. Cohen

The rapid expansion of information from diverse sources has heightened the need for effective automatic text summarization, which condenses documents into shorter, coherent texts. Summarization methods generally fall into two categories:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Aziz Amari , Mohamed Achref Ben Ammar

Traditional approaches to extractive summarization rely heavily on human-engineered features. In this work we propose a data-driven approach based on neural networks and continuous sentence features. We develop a general framework for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Jianpeng Cheng , Mirella Lapata

Graphs that capture relations between textual units have great benefits for detecting salient information from multiple documents and generating overall coherent summaries. In this paper, we develop a neural abstractive multi-document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Wei Li , Xinyan Xiao , Jiachen Liu , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang , Junping Du

In recent times, extracting valuable information from large text is making significant progress. Especially in the current era of social media, people expect quick bites of information. Automatic text summarization seeks to tackle this by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Sindhu Nair , Y. S. Rao , Radha Shankarmani

Automatic patent summarization approaches that help in the patent analysis and comprehension procedure are in high demand due to the colossal growth of innovations. The development of natural language processing (NLP), text mining, and deep…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Nevidu Jayatilleke , Ruvan Weerasinghe

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

Abstractive summarization has made tremendous progress in recent years. In this work, we perform fine-grained human annotations to evaluate long document abstractive summarization systems (i.e., models and metrics) with the aim of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Huan Yee Koh , Jiaxin Ju , He Zhang , Ming Liu , Shirui Pan

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

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

Detecting factual inconsistency for long document summarization remains challenging, given the complex structure of the source article and long summary length. In this work, we study factual inconsistency errors and connect them with a line…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yang Zhong , Diane Litman