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Sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) network is a well-established model for text summarization task. It can learn to produce readable content; however, it falls short in effectively identifying key regions of the source. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Sajad Sotudeh , Nazli Goharian , Ross W. Filice

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

Recent advances in summarization research focus on improving summary quality across multiple criteria, such as completeness, conciseness, and faithfulness, by jointly optimizing these dimensions. However, these efforts largely overlook the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hongye Liu , Liang Ding , Ricardo Henao

Due to the exponential growth of information and the need for efficient information consumption the task of summarization has gained paramount importance. Evaluating summarization accurately and objectively presents significant challenges,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Dong Yuan , Eti Rastogi , Fen Zhao , Sagar Goyal , Gautam Naik , Sree Prasanna Rajagopal

Query-focused summarization (QFS) aims to provide a summary of a document that satisfies information need of a given query and is useful in various IR applications, such as abstractive snippet generation. Current QFS approaches typically…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Zhichao Xu , Daniel Cohen

Due to the manifold ranking method has a significant effect on the ranking of unknown data based on known data by using a weighted network, many researchers use the manifold ranking method to solve the document summarization task. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Jianying Lin , Rui Liu , Quanye Jia

Evaluating text summarization has been a challenging task in natural language processing (NLP). Automatic metrics which heavily rely on reference summaries are not suitable in many situations, while human evaluation is time-consuming and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Huyen Nguyen , Haihua Chen , Lavanya Pobbathi , Junhua Ding

Recent Transformer-based summarization models have provided a promising approach to abstractive summarization. They go beyond sentence selection and extractive strategies to deal with more complicated tasks such as novel word generation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Sajad Sotudeh , Hanieh Deilamsalehy , Franck Dernoncourt , Nazli Goharian

Training Learning-to-Rank models for e-commerce product search ranking can be challenging due to the lack of a gold standard of ranking relevance. In this paper, we decompose ranking relevance into content-based and engagement-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Qi Liu , Atul Singh , Jingbo Liu , Cun Mu , Zheng Yan

Reference-based metrics such as ROUGE or BERTScore evaluate the content quality of a summary by comparing the summary to a reference. Ideally, this comparison should measure the summary's information quality by calculating how much…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Daniel Deutsch , Dan Roth

Text summarization plays a crucial role in natural language processing by condensing large volumes of text into concise and coherent summaries. As digital content continues to grow rapidly and the demand for effective information retrieval…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Tohida Rehman , Soumabha Ghosh , Kuntal Das , Souvik Bhattacharjee , Debarshi Kumar Sanyal , Samiran Chattopadhyay

Nowadays, pre-trained sequence-to-sequence models such as BERTSUM and BART have shown state-of-the-art results in abstractive summarization. In these models, during fine-tuning, the encoder transforms sentences to context vectors in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Sung-Guk Jo , Jeong-Jae Kim , Byung-Won On

Learning to Rank is the problem involved with ranking a sequence of documents based on their relevance to a given query. Deep Q-Learning has been shown to be a useful method for training an agent in sequential decision making. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Abhishek Sharma

Query-focused summarization over multi-table data is a challenging yet critical task for extracting precise and relevant information from structured data. Existing methods often rely on complex preprocessing steps and struggle to generalize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Xiaochuan Lin , Xiangyong Chen

Table summarization is a crucial task aimed at condensing information from tabular data into concise and comprehensible textual summaries. However, existing approaches often fall short of adequately meeting users' information and quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Weijia Zhang , Vaishali Pal , Jia-Hong Huang , Evangelos Kanoulas , Maarten de Rijke

Query-focused meeting summarization (QFMS) aims to generate summaries from meeting transcripts in response to a given query. Previous works typically concatenate the query with meeting transcripts and implicitly model the query relevance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Xingxian Liu , Bin Duan , Bo Xiao , Yajing Xu

Abstractive summarization approaches based on Reinforcement Learning (RL) have recently been proposed to overcome classical likelihood maximization. RL enables to consider complex, possibly non-differentiable, metrics that globally assess…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Thomas Scialom , Sylvain Lamprier , Benjamin Piwowarski , Jacopo Staiano

Deep neural networks have achieved significant improvements in information retrieval (IR). However, most existing models are computational costly and can not efficiently scale to long documents. This paper proposes a novel End-to-End neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Chen Zheng , Yu Sun , Shengxian Wan , Dianhai Yu

We investigate the exploitation of both lexical and neural relevance signals for ad-hoc passage retrieval. Our exploration involves a large-scale training dataset in which dense neural representations of MS-MARCO queries and passages are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Franco Maria Nardini , Raffaele Perego , Nicola Tonellotto , Salvatore Trani

By harnessing pre-trained language models, summarization models had rapid progress recently. However, the models are mainly assessed by automatic evaluation metrics such as ROUGE. Although ROUGE is known for having a positive correlation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Wonjin Yoon , Yoon Sun Yeo , Minbyul Jeong , Bong-Jun Yi , Jaewoo Kang