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Long document summarization is an important and hard task in the field of natural language processing. A good performance of the long document summarization reveals the model has a decent understanding of the human language. Currently, most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Xinwei Du , Kailun Dong , Yuchen Zhang , Yongsheng Li , Ruei-Yu Tsay

Maintaining factual consistency is a critical issue in abstractive text summarisation, however, it cannot be assessed by traditional automatic metrics used for evaluating text summarisation, such as ROUGE scoring. Recent efforts have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Jennifer A Bishop , Qianqian Xie , Sophia Ananiadou

We propose a selective encoding model to extend the sequence-to-sequence framework for abstractive sentence summarization. It consists of a sentence encoder, a selective gate network, and an attention equipped decoder. The sentence encoder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Qingyu Zhou , Nan Yang , Furu Wei , Ming Zhou

The proliferation of data and text documents such as articles, web pages, books, social network posts, etc. on the Internet has created a fundamental challenge in various fields of text processing under the title of "automatic text…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Kazem Taghandiki , Mohammad Hassan Ahmadi , Elnaz Rezaei Ehsan

LLMs and RAG systems are now capable of handling millions of input tokens or more. However, evaluating the output quality of such systems on long-context tasks remains challenging, as tasks like Needle-in-a-Haystack lack complexity. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Philippe Laban , Alexander R. Fabbri , Caiming Xiong , Chien-Sheng Wu

In Machine Translation, Large Language Models (LLMs) have generally underperformed compared to conventional encoder-decoder systems and thus see limited adoption. However, LLMs excel at modeling contextual information, making them a natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Ireh Kim , Tesia Sker , Chanwoo Kim

Interpretability and efficiency are two important considerations for the adoption of neural automatic metrics. In this work, we develop strong-performing automatic metrics for reference-based summarization evaluation, based on a two-stage…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Yixin Liu , Alexander R. Fabbri , Yilun Zhao , Pengfei Liu , Shafiq Joty , Chien-Sheng Wu , Caiming Xiong , Dragomir Radev

The rapid growth of textual data across news, legal, medical, and scientific domains is becoming a challenge for efficiently accessing and understanding large volumes of content. It is increasingly complex for users to consume and extract…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Pushpa Devi , Ayush Agrawal , Ashutosh Dubey , C. Ravindranath Chowdary

Recently, compressive text summarisation offers a balance between the conciseness issue of extractive summarisation and the factual hallucination issue of abstractive summarisation. However, most existing compressive summarisation methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Peggy Tang , Junbin Gao , Lei Zhang , Zhiyong Wang

Breaking down the structure of long texts into semantically coherent segments makes the texts more readable and supports downstream applications like summarization and retrieval. Starting from an apparent link between text coherence and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Goran Glavaš , Swapna Somasundaran

Automatic summarisation is a popular approach to reduce a document to its main arguments. Recent research in the area has focused on neural approaches to summarisation, which can be very data-hungry. However, few large datasets exist and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Ed Collins , Isabelle Augenstein , Sebastian Riedel

One of the principal tasks of machine learning with major applications is text classification. This paper focuses on the legal domain and, in particular, on the classification of lengthy legal documents. The main challenge that this study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Lulu Wan , George Papageorgiou , Michael Seddon , Mirko Bernardoni

Enlarging the context window of large language models (LLMs) has become a crucial research area, particularly for applications involving extremely long texts. In this work, we propose a novel training-free framework for processing long…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Zihan Zhou , Chong Li , Xinyi Chen , Shuo Wang , Yu Chao , Zhili Li , Haoyu Wang , Rongqiao An , Qi Shi , Zhixing Tan , Xu Han , Xiaodong Shi , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

We present our method for tackling a legal case retrieval task by introducing our method of encoding documents by summarizing them into continuous vector space via our phrase scoring framework utilizing deep neural networks. On the other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Vu Tran , Minh Le Nguyen , Satoshi Tojo , Ken Satoh

Due to its promise to alleviate information overload, text summarization has attracted the attention of many researchers. However, it has remained a serious challenge. Here, we first prove empirical limits on the recall (and F1-scores) of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Rakesh Verma , Daniel Lee

We present a new neural model for text summarization that first extracts sentences from a document and then compresses them. The proposed model offers a balance that sidesteps the difficulties in abstractive methods while generating more…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Afonso Mendes , Shashi Narayan , Sebastião Miranda , Zita Marinho , André F. T. Martins , Shay B. Cohen

The increasing volume of textual data poses challenges in reading and comprehending large documents, particularly for scholars who need to extract useful information from research articles. Automatic text summarization has emerged as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Samira Zangooei , Amirhossein Darmani , Hossein Farahmand Nezhad , Laya Mahmoudi

Text segmentation aims to divide text into contiguous, semantically coherent segments, while segment labeling deals with producing labels for each segment. Past work has shown success in tackling segmentation and labeling for documents and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Hakan Inan , Rashi Rungta , Yashar Mehdad

The IMPRESSIONS section of a radiology report about an imaging study is a summary of the radiologist's reasoning and conclusions, and it also aids the referring physician in confirming or excluding certain diagnoses. A cascade of tasks are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Sanjeev Kumar Karn , Ning Liu , Hinrich Schuetze , Oladimeji Farri

Summarization of long sequences into a concise statement is a core problem in natural language processing, requiring non-trivial understanding of the input. Based on the promising results of graph neural networks on highly structured data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Patrick Fernandes , Miltiadis Allamanis , Marc Brockschmidt